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Millions of pounds in community funds could be devoted to the biggest programme of council-house building in the isles since the oil boom days of the 1970s.SIC convener Sandy Cluness and other councillors are eager to see a portion of the £500 million oil reserves spent on up to 400 new local a... Read more...
BP is planning to remove water from its Schiehallion oil offshore from 2015 which could spell the end for around one-third of the tanker traffic through Sullom Voe.(more…) Read more...
A Shetland firm run by Sullom Voe tugmen has been hired to bring home the two new council tugs from their Spanish shipyard now that their performance failures appear cured.Shetland Maritime has been brought in by Unión Naval Valencia (UNV) yard to deliver the twin £7 million tugs after it was ... Read more...
A Latvian man was remanded in custody today after being caught driving while almost four times over the limit – just a week after he was in court on a previous drink driving charge.(more…) Read more...
Shetland is set to get the UK’s biggest battery as part of Scottish and Southern Energy’s radical plans to improve the local electricity grid and take more power from windfarms.(more…) Read more...
Consultation on the SIC's plans to close four small rural primary schools in Shetland will begin early in the new year.(more…) Read more...
Sea of Life, CD by the North Ness Boys.If you, like so many others, have enjoyed the live performances of the North Ness Boys over the years, this album will come as a welcome opportunity to have direct access to their music. (more…) Read more...
The Scots Kitchen by F Marian McNeill. Birlinn, £20.This classic cookbook, dating from 1929, has been reproduced in hardback in the first new edition for over 30 years. (more…) Read more...
BP’s plan to build a new floating production vessel for its Schiehallion field could result in a major reduction in tanker traffic through Sullom Voe. The new vessel would allow water to be removed from the oil that comes up from the well offshore rather than at Sullom Voe as at present. The compa... Read more...
Invitations to the Althing do not come my way very often. Before last weekend the last time that I had spoken at an Althing debate was in 2000.Goodness only knows I have dropped enough hints over the years but no invitations have been forthcoming until now. The motion to be debated was that th... Read more...