Dilapidated school to shut down for day
By NEIL RIDDELL The Anderson High School will be closed today because of a burst pipe which led to “extremely hot” water gushing through the…
READ FULL STORYBy NEIL RIDDELL The Anderson High School will be closed today because of a burst pipe which led to “extremely hot” water gushing through the…
READ FULL STORYBurra-based poet Jen Hadfield received a welcome shock this week when she found out she had won the TS Eliot Prize for poetry for her…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON Local poet Jen Hadfield was by her own admission the surprise winner of the prestigious TS Eliot Prize this week for her…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON Did the earth move for you? This was the question being asked around the isles yesterday morning as Shetlanders awoke to reports…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON No more salmon farms had been placed under infectious salmon anaemia (ISA) restrictions as we went to press yesterday although the results…
READ FULL STORYMSP Tavish Scott has sought assurances from the government that no-one selling a house in Shetland will be penalised because of failings in a database….
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON A former council worker who investigates how Shetland public money is used to aid private businesses is the victim of a sinister…
READ FULL STORYCouncil ferry bosses are to cut charges for transporting boxes of milk, bread and newspapers after a complaint that island shopkeepers could be put out…
READ FULL STORYShetland is to voice its concern about the continuing delay to the start of a major government review of Scotland’s ferry services. The SIC inter-island…
READ FULL STORYThe skipper of an oil standby ship has denied breaching a safety management system resulting in the death of a crew member in November 2007….
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR The former manager of a butcher shop which closed down despite enjoying an exceptional Christmas is launching a bid to take over…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Bressay folk are preparing to fight to keep their “superior” tap water after learning of a proposal by Scottish Water to pipe…
READ FULL STORYBy JOHN ROBERTSON Two local contractors are in the running to build Lerwick’s biggest office block – a £6 million headquarters for SIC social services…
READ FULL STORYBy LOUISE THOMASON For 113 years the post office at Bixter has been operated by a man named Creighton Williamson. Or rather three men –…
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