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The Accounts Commission has moved to allay the fears of senior SIC officials about losing their jobs in the fallout from the two-day public hearing to be held later this month.There had been concerns, aired in today's Shetland Times print edition, that an entirely new management team might be im... Read more...
A man facing drugs charges was released on bail after appearing in private at Lerwick Sheriff Court today.(more…) Read more...
My apologies but I am despairing at the lack of understanding in where you and your fellow councillors stand in terms of conflict of interest.(more…) Read more...
A Shetland-based ship will soon be on the scene of BP’s environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico to help in the latest attempts to stem the flow of oil. The Lerwick-registered oil shuttle tanker Loch Rannoch left on Wednesday with at least three Shetlanders in her crew and is currently cro... Read more...
New UK energy minister Chris Huhne is expected to visit Shetland later in the summer. He made the pledge following a meeting this week with his Liberal Democrat colleague, Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael.(more…) Read more...
NHS Shetland is forecasting the loss of eight jobs over the next year as part of a nationwide squeeze on health budgets.However chief executive Sandra Laurenson said there would be no compulsory redundancies as part of the move, insisting many of the posts due to go were for staff coming to the ... Read more...
Locals and visitors – including Hamefarers – will be offered a full programme of music and activities at this year's four-day Flavour of Shetland festival.(more…) Read more...
The failure of a linkspan for ferries berthing at Toft in April cost around £100,000 to repair and the council is currently in discussion with insurers about whether it can claw back some of the expense.(more…) Read more...
A controversial welfare benefit is causing huge “misery and distress” for hundreds of sick and disabled people locally, according to the Citizens Advice Bureau (CAB).(more…) Read more...
Poet Christie Williamson from Yell and his publisher, the Shetland and Orkney Hansel Cooperative Press, were the joint winners with a Borders poet of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award for publishing last month. LOUISE THOMASON caught up with a writer who would love to give up the day job to go ful... Read more...