Co-operation of public helps tackle drugs menace in town
HELP from the public has proved the key to turning the tide on Shetland’s drugs menace. Lerwick Community Council heard co-operation from residents in the…
READ FULL STORYHELP from the public has proved the key to turning the tide on Shetland’s drugs menace. Lerwick Community Council heard co-operation from residents in the…
READ FULL STORYTALKS aimed at resurrecting Smyril Line’s service to Shetland with the Norröna have fallen flat. Informal discussions had taken place between cash-strapped Smyril and the…
READ FULL STORYCUSTOMERS are to be able to examine Tesco’s extension plans with an exhibition on show at the store in Lerwick next week. The company is…
READ FULL STORYTHE MIND Your Head charity has had another successful year, with its annual Round Spiggie Fun Run/Walk raising nearly £5,000. Four hundred and fifty people…
READ FULL STORYFROM time to time my mailbag produces invitations to embassy parties. Never having been a great lover of Ferrero Rocher most of these get politely…
READ FULL STORY25 YEARS AGO BOOKINGS are now being taken for the Lerwick Harbour Trust’s new Shetland Hotel which opens in March next year. Secretary of State…
READ FULL STORYMSP Tavish Scott has repeated his call for the Office of Fair Trading to step in over the continued high price of fuel in the…
READ FULL STORYHEALTH promotion officer for NHS Shetland Rachel Stewart has recently won two national awards for her work in smoking cessation. Rachel won the Great No-Smoking…
READ FULL STORYREGARDING last week’s item about GB Oils, we have been asked to point out that marine gas oil is supplied and sold through Highland Fuels….
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS GENERAL manager of ports and harbours operations Jim Dickson presided over his last meeting at Sella Ness a week ago. Sitting at…
READ FULL STORYTRIBUTES have been paid this week to young undergraduate Duncan Hogg, the son of highly-respected teachers Forbes and Heather Hogg, who has died suddenly from…
READ FULL STORYWORK has been steady at Lerwick Harbour this week with a fair amount of oil-related activity. A interesting visitor, the lighthouse tender Pharos, arrived last…
READ FULL STORYA NEW fishing history project is under way at the NAFC Marine Centre with the appointment of Bobby Gear from Scalloway. Mr Gear, who graduated…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON CONCERNS have been raised over the European Commission’s announcement this week to cut fish quotas by up to 25 per cent in…
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