It beggars belief
Tuesday’s vote on Viking Energy’s windfarm application by the SIC was yet another serious breach of conduct by our inept elected members.
READ FULL STORYTuesday’s vote on Viking Energy’s windfarm application by the SIC was yet another serious breach of conduct by our inept elected members.
READ FULL STORYShetland’s coastguard station is vital for protecting fishermen and other seafarers and for the coalition government even to consider closing it is “totally beyond belief”,
READ FULL STORYShetland Fishermen’s Association chief executive Hansen Black today backed calls for a new system of fisheries management based on regional control and greater industry input
READ FULL STORYThe turkeys have voted for Christmas. Nine of the 13 Viking Energy windfarm developers (aka SIC councillors) sitting around the top table in the Town
READ FULL STORYA woman with a string of offences behind her was sentenced to nine months imprisonment by Lerwick Sheriff Court this week.
READ FULL STORYShetland is bracing itself for another onslaught of wintry weather which is due tomorrow and expected to last four days. Heavy snow and ice are
READ FULL STORYA Latvian man who took to the wheel just a week after receiving a two-year ban for drink-driving narrowly avoided a custodial sentence at Lerwick
READ FULL STORYBuoyed by an upsurge in global markets, Shetland Charitable Trust gained a record £50 million in its investment funds in the financial year 2009/10.
READ FULL STORYA week ago I posed the following open questions to those that oppose a future renewable energy export industry for Shetland:
READ FULL STORYThe vote in favour of Viking Energy’s current windfarm proposal is hardly a ringing endorsement. As you have reported, only nine of the 21 councillors
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