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Alistair Carmichael has won the Orkney and Shetland seat in the general election with an increased majority on a night when his Liberal Democrat party failed to live up to expectations after its surge in the polls following the first of the live TV debates.Mr Carmichael received 11,989 votes... Read more...
A Boddam slaughterhouse firm has still not met the conditions attached to a £450,000 grant from the SIC to upgrade its premises.There are now fears that Pure Shetland Lamb is unlikely to be able to do so before an EU-imposed December deadline for such assistance.(more…) Read more...
The performance of Shetland’s councillors has been heavily criticised in a long-awaited report by Scotland’s financial watchdog into the crisis-ridden local authority.No SIC members are named individually in the brief 12-page document published by Audit Scotland on its website this morni... Read more...
While Shetland boasts plenty of talented people, over the years there are not many who have made it onto the West End stage in an instantly-recognisable show.Francesca Leyland, 20, from Lerwick, however, has done just this by gaining a place in the ensemble of Les Miserables, which will run ... Read more...
Gambling in our nameAs though the havoc wreaked by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano last month were not enough to convince us, two more disastrous events have since unfolded that demonstrate precisely how vulnerable we in the West have allowed ourselves to become.But, whereas the volcanic erupt... Read more...
Malachy Tallack meets Nicole Mouat, Shetland’s Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament.While the rest of us had the opportunity this month to exercise our right to vote, young folk all over the country had to sit back and watch helplessly as we once again made the wrong decisions. But though ... Read more...
When I was young it was simple. Working people voted Labour, posh folk and farmers voted Conservative, “teuchters” voted Liberal and a collection of various academics, bohemians and lunatics voted for the Nats. There were a few commies dotted around and the odd independent, but that was it. Simp... Read more...
The difficult and hugely important work carried out by women in the First World War too often goes unremarked. Marsali Taylor explores the contribution of Shetland women to the war effort.As soon as war was declared, the Shetland Women’s Suffrage Society formed the Emergency Helpers, with the ... Read more...
Less a less, for sicca ess!Hit wis da sam da last time yon volcano gied aff. I got da blame for da smell. I wis joost a peerie trow playin on da hill in 1821 when my midder accused me.“Tushie, is yon dee? I should niver hiv let dee aet aa yon kale dastreen,” she said waftin a claa afore ... Read more...
From The Shetland Times, Friday 27th May, 1960Many Shetlanders have welcomed the announcement by the Postmaster-general that he has approved, in principle, the second stage of the B.B.C.’s plans for extending and improving the coverage of the T.V. and V.H.F. service by building additional low-... Read more...