Crunch meeting next week will decide future of education in the isles
Councillors will next week meet to consider sanctioning a deeply unpopular series of closures to primary and secondary schools across Shetland in an effort to
READ FULL STORYCouncillors will next week meet to consider sanctioning a deeply unpopular series of closures to primary and secondary schools across Shetland in an effort to
READ FULL STORYPolice investigations are under way after a laptop computer was stolen from an NHS vehicle.
READ FULL STORYA Kist of Emigrants, J Laughton Johnston. Published by The Shetland Times Ltd, £29. Did you know that novelist John Steinbeck name-checks a Shetland man
READ FULL STORYThe council must start fighting for new oil business for Sullom Voe from companies which are gearing up to tap huge oil and gas fields
READ FULL STORYBuilt in the early 20th century, it has had various incarnations and one flit in its century-long existence. But this week the hut located opposite
READ FULL STORYThe troubled fish factory in Whalsay has been given four months to turn its dwindling fortunes round to help it bring out two new products
READ FULL STORYA last attempt is to be made to save free musical instrument tuition in Shetland schools next week. Councillor Rick Nickerson will try to halt
READ FULL STORYA talented youngster from Nesting is to move to the mainland to pursue his dream of becoming a professional footballer with Aberdeen after experiencing an
READ FULL STORYIntrepid sailor Leslie Irvine has completed the first leg of the gruelling Shetland Round Britain and Ireland race in good style, finishing second in his
READ FULL STORYThe council’s decision to impose a charge on musical instrument tuition to help save costs at a tough time for public spending has provoked widespread
READ FULL STORYYoung Unst man BOBBY MACAULAY completed his schooling in Swaziland and is now studying politics at Glasgow University. With the World Cup in South Africa
READ FULL STORYTradition was broken for the first time ever at the weekend when the Sandwick regatta was held at Aith Voe Pier in Cunningsburgh due to
READ FULL STORYThe summer issue of The New Shetlander appears as the 2010 Hamefarin begins, and celebrates the fact with Ian Tait’s preview of the new Shetland
READ FULL STORYThe Islands Book Trust has just published Destination St Kilda: From Oban to Skye and the Outer Hebrides, edited by Mark Butterworth.
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