Five candidates with hats in ring so far as general election date is confirmed
This year’s UK general election will take place on Thursday 6th May after Prime Minister Gordon Brown went to Buckingham Palace this morning to ask
READ FULL STORYThis year’s UK general election will take place on Thursday 6th May after Prime Minister Gordon Brown went to Buckingham Palace this morning to ask
READ FULL STORYShetland Coastguard’s routine operations virtually stopped for a period today and late yesterday because of a major failure on a BT line, although emergency calls
READ FULL STORYA teenager who stole cash from his friend and his sister to feed his “aggressive heroin habit” appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court today.
READ FULL STORYPolice have named the man who went missing in his kayak off St Ninian’s Isle last week as Kester Wigram, 51, who is originally from
READ FULL STORYThe final of the Highland Fuels Cup, the traditional curtain raiser to the outdoor senior football season, will see Whalsay taking on Celtic in Whalsay
READ FULL STORYTeam Rowley kept in touch with Loungers at the top of the netball first division with a hard-fought win over Whalsay while AHS defeated Supernova
READ FULL STORYLate last month, the Scottish government’s chief scientist, Professor Anne Glover, was in Shetland to discuss the threat of global warming and the efforts to
READ FULL STORYLast month, J. Laughton Johnston argued that the Viking Energy windfarm offers many benefits for Shetland. But James Mackenzie remains unconvinced. here, he outlines the
READ FULL STORYGraham Watson tells the story of a dramatic rescue operation, and of the warm hospitality shown to stranded Russian seamen at the height of the
READ FULL STORYA fictional story, based on accounts of the sixern disaster of July 1881, by Sandy Peterson “So, Robbie boy, hoo did it go da day
READ FULL STORYWith all the talking points of contemporary Shetland life, whether it be the debates on wind farms, the blue print for education and Dave Clark,
READ FULL STORYA voar highlight is frogs gadderin in da loch tae laeve dir spawn. For me hit’s a novelty, dey wir niver dere when I wis
READ FULL STORYSuppose Norway wanted Orkney and Shetland back? Lord Saltoun, Laird of Fraserburgh, asked the House of Lords on Tuesday when all parties welcomed the Highlands
READ FULL STORYWalls have ears and if only stones could speak what stories they could tell. When I go round old houses, whether they are ruinous,
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