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A Polish man who stabbed a neighbour with a knife following a late night struggle before hiding in a cupboard to avoid detection was warned he could face a prison sentence this week. Arkadiusz Helbecht, 28, inflicted a three centimetre laceration to his victim's right thigh and a half centimetre wi... Read more...
Shooting an air rifle at a target for practice in a residential area earned a man a £70 fine at Lerwick Sheriff Court this week. Linas Aleksandravicius was told he could have been facing a much greater penalty – Sheriff Graeme Napier said he had been thinking of fining him more than 10 times a... Read more...
Councillor Jonathan Wills has failed in his attempt to persuade the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman to investigate what he describes as the "waste" of £6 million on three major council projects. He now intends to bring the matter up with First Minister Alex Salmond. The Lerwick South member wro... Read more...
A new survey claims that if all Shetland motorists switched to eco-driving habits they would save £1.7 million a year and 4,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2), the equivalent of one motorist driving from John O' Groats to Inverness 120,000 times. The survey of 1,000 Scots in 44 different locations... Read more...
MSP Tavish Scott is urging Scottish transport minister Stewart Stevenson to change his mind and to allow NorthLink to provide sleeping couchettes on the ferries serving Lerwick. He has argued that there is a desperate need for more berths on the ferries in the face of evidence that lack of sleeping... Read more...