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A fight to preserve free music tuition in schools has been lost as Shetland Islands Council starts imposing the cutbacks it has long spoken about.Musician and councillor Rick Nickerson attacked the £160-a-year charge on children as “a tax on talent” but failed in his bid to prevent its ... Read more...
A Whalsay tunnel could be ruled out within a few weeks if Scandinavian experts advise a delegation from Shetland Islands Council that it would cost too much and take too long to meet the local authority’s requirements.A team from Shetland is to travel to Glasgow for meetings with tunnel expert... Read more...
Councillors have brought a £4.5 million extension to Shetland College to the front of the building queue to avoid losing out on a £1.8m European grant.At the Full Council on Wednesday the elected members were fulsome in their praise for the college and agreed to put up the remaining £2.5m, ac... Read more...
Hjaltland Housing Association has announced the completion of the 16 flats on the former site of Williamson’s Fish Factory at Grantfield.The new development, to be known as Da Vadill, was designed by local architectural firm Richard Gibson Architects and was completed to a very high standa... Read more...
Following their best album of the year title at the Scottish Traditional Music Awards in November last year, Fiddlers’ Bid have won another award for their much acclaimed new album All Dressed in Yellow.This time they have picked up the award for best instrumental album of the year from th... Read more...
Shetland Islands Council is to review its management of the two big crofting estates it owns following complaints of bureaucratic delays in selling land and assigning crofts.The council bought the Busta Estate in 1975 and the Burra and Trondra Estate in 1985, consisting of nearly 65,000 acres of... Read more...
The number of people out of work and actively looking for employment in Shetland was 185 last month, just 1.4 per cent of the workforce, according to the latest labour market statistics.That respresents an increase of 25 (or 0.2 per cent) on January last year. Of the 185, 143 were men and 42 wer... Read more...