Man charged over death of 18 seal pups
A 47 year old man has been charged in connection with the deaths of 18 grey seal pups found on a beach on a small…
READ FULL STORYA 47 year old man has been charged in connection with the deaths of 18 grey seal pups found on a beach on a small…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL LAST minute negotiations are to take place to bring the cost of the new Mid Yell Junior High School back under budget…
READ FULL STORYBy PAUL RIDDELL THE LARGEST single share of the Sullom Voe oil terminal is now effectively owned by the government of a wealthy middle eastern…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON MAVERICK campaigner Stuart Hill is hoping his long-awaited showdown with the authorities over the legal ownership of Shetland might happen before the…
READ FULL STORYA YOUNG apprentice joiner has been jailed for four years and eight months for causing the death of his friend in a high-speed car crash…
READ FULL STORYBRINDISTER quarry is set to shut down. The building materials and aggregates suppliers Hanson Aggregates will close the site by the end of the year….
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL THE SIC will not consider making any changes to its financial strategy until early next summer in the wake of the “gravest…
READ FULL STORYA COUNCILLOR is taking his quest to get the bottom of capital project failings which have cost the SIC several millions of pounds to the…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON THE COUNCIL has slapped a ban on discussing new building projects worth hundreds of millions of pounds until it completes those already…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL THE funding package for Shetland’s controversial cinema and music venue Mareel is finally in place after European investment of £2.8m was confirmed…
READ FULL STORYBy ROSALIND GRIFFITHS A TEMPORARY care home at Montfield with 17 beds could be ready by 2010. The council unanimously agreed in principle on Wednesday…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON HORSE-RIDING groups in Shetland are up in arms over a threat that their showground at Seafield in Lerwick could be dug up…
READ FULL STORYTHE new head teacher at Brae High School is Colin Kirkness, who was appointed to the post this week. Mr Kirkness, 40, is an Orcadian…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON REFURBISHMENTS to St Columba’s Church in Lerwick are almost complete. The renovation, undertaken by Irvine Contractors and overseen by Peter Johnson Partnership…
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