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By JOHN ROBERTSONShetland crofting is in crisis after the local agricultural co-op warned it would fold next month unless the SIC helps it find a way out of debt.The troubled Shetland Livestock Marketing Group (SLMG) runs the Shetland Marts and sells and slaughters a large percentage of th... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLCouncillors may lose majority control over a substantial chunk of Shetland’s oil funds as the charitable trust begins to undergo a gradual process of reform this year, starting with a meeting later this month at which trustees will have to decide how to go about drawing up an a... Read more...
Train Shetland apprentice Vincent Tonner has been named as Inverness College’s motor vehicle apprentice of the year.The SVQ Level 3 apprentice from Yell was presented with his award, along with a toolbox worth £250 provided by Macgregor’s Industrial Supplies, at a recent ceremony at the colle... Read more...
By ROSALIND GRIFFITHSThe eagerly-awaited CLAN raffle was drawn on Tuesday by the Guizer Jarl in the prestigious surroundings of the Town Hall’s upper chamber. With the star prize of a car – a Toyota Yaris, sponsored by Toyota and Jim’s Garage – and many others including trips to the mainl... Read more...
Police are appealing for witnesses to an alleged early morning assault on a 24-year-old woman which caused an area next to the Co-op supermarket in Lerwick to be cordoned off by police on Wednesday.The incident is said to have happened between 5am and 8am near a bus stop close to the Holmsga... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLShetland’s long-planned cinema and music venue Mareel will be constructed by local building firm DITT at a cost of just over £10 million, it has been confirmed, with work on the site likely to start before the summer.The contract was given the thumbs up by trustees at a Shetlan... Read more...
By NEIL RIDDELLA heated debate is guaranteed tomorrow evening as the Althing Social Group examines whether too much money is spent on the arts in Shetland.The motion will be proposed by avidly anti-Mareel councillor Jonathan Wills and Althing regular Gordon Dargie, while Shetland Arts chairman ... Read more...
By JOHN ROBERTSONA council plan to create a major ship repair centre in Shetland has been criticised by the man behind the islands’ last big drydock, which the council’s development trust got rid of four years ago despite interest from local engineering firms.Councillors on the develo... Read more...
Councillors will next week be asked to approve in principle the leasing of sites in Mossbank and Sandwick to the Shetland Allotment Association for a “peppercorn rent” following “considerable” public interest in the scheme.In a report due to go before the SIC’s infrastructure committee o... Read more...
By LOUISE THOMASONA study into an archaeological dig in Foula has been featured in one of the UK’s most important archaeological magazines.The site, at Da Heights, at the north end of the isle, was investigated by a team of volunteers from the Bath and Camerton Archaeological Society (BACA... Read more...