Whalsay ferry crash caused by electrical fault destroys part of Laxo pier
A suspected electrical fault caused the Whalsay ferry Linga to crash into the pier at Laxo on Wednesday morning.
READ FULL STORYA suspected electrical fault caused the Whalsay ferry Linga to crash into the pier at Laxo on Wednesday morning.
READ FULL STORYPolice in Shetland could be weeks away from deciding to recruit a new traffic warden to help deal with mounting parking chaos.
READ FULL STORYThe speed with which house-building applications are dealt with this year may be slowed by a baby boom among planning staff, councillors heard this week.
READ FULL STORYA 70-year-old grandfather is arriving in Shetland today at the end of a 900-mile trek to raise funds for the Royal National Lifeboat Institution.
READ FULL STORYShetland Amenity Trust applied for planning permission this week to build a full-size replica Viking longhouse in Unst, the first time the trust will have
READ FULL STORYShetland has lost its heart to the Gunnister Man. The anonymous man who met a lonely end in the hills of Northmavine three hundred years
READ FULL STORYKeeping children entertained over the long summer months can often be a challenge, but a Dunrossness family found a solution by raising money for charity,
READ FULL STORYFishermen’s Federations delivered a stark message to UK fisheries ministers in Edinburgh on Wednesday, warning that efforts must be stepped up to head off devastating
READ FULL STORYOne of Shetland’s best-known radio broadcasters, Gordon “Hank” Smith, died, aged 77, this week, 30 years after his first Country Jukebox show on BBC Radio
READ FULL STORYProposals by NorthLink to cut winter sailings between Aberdeen and Lerwick have been cancelled.
READ FULL STORYThe ire of Irish builders O’Hare and McGovern is understandable. Once the anointed firm to construct a new high school at the Knab, it must
READ FULL STORYSeptember saw a reverse of the pressure field of July and August, with below normal pressure over Greenland, the Norwegian Sea and northern Scandinavia, and
READ FULL STORYShetland Fencing Club travelled to Inverness at the weekend and produced probably the best results in the several years of competing in this senior Scottish
READ FULL STORYA group of clay shooters travelled to Orkney at the weekend to take part in the annual inter-county, an event which has been ongoing since
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