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The reputation of BT in Shetland was in shreds this week after the telecoms giant failed to act to get thousands of broadband customers back online. Businesses and thousands of people at home across Shetland encountered persistent problems with some being offline or suffering hopelessly slow i... Read more...
Outspoken councillor Jonathan Wills today launched yet another attack on the SIC’s “truly pitiful” and "embarrassing" political leadership, saying he could see no prospect of meaningful change until the next set of elections in 2012.(more…) Read more...
Lerwick’s newest policeman is inspector Eddie Graham, who announced his promotion to the rank this week.Inspector Graham, who had served in Shetland from 1999 to 2003 and most recently worked in Orkney, said he hoped Shetland’s communities would provide him with the necessary support to help... Read more...
Shetland marine and industrial electrical engineering firm DH Marine has taken over the Lerwick shop Herculean which supplies trailers and cleaning, caravanning and fishing equipment. The change took effect last week. (more…) Read more...
The type of wave turbine which Vattenfall intends installing off Shetland in 2014 has produced electricity for the first time. (more…) Read more...
The remarkable story of Thomas Fraser turned another page on Wednesday evening with the launch of the fifth in the series of CDs of music recorded by the late Burra fisherman. (more…) Read more...
Next week Scotland’s finance secretary John Swinney will announce how his government intends to spend the £27.9 billion in revenue and capital funding for 2011/12 it was allocated by the coalition in the October spending review – a fall of almost three per cent in cash terms, and much more if i... Read more...
25 Years AgoBritish Telecom is increasing its staff in the Isle of Man while closing down manual exchanges in other isolated communities, including Shetland. Mr Mike Gerrard, the chief executive of SIC said this amounted to discrimination against Shetland. (more…) Read more...
The members’ tea room in the House of Commons has been buzzing this week in a way that I have not seen for some time.What, I hear you ask, has stirred up our nation’s legislators in this way? You might think it would be spending cuts or maybe the closure of RAF bases or maybe even changes to... Read more...