Vikings to join Fiddlers’ Bid on stage at Celtic Connections
Fiddlers’ Bid are to be joined by some very special Viking guests when they take to the stage at Celtic Connections in Glasgow tomorrow night….
READ FULL STORYDay: 14 January 2011
Coastguard helicopter sent to aid of oil rig worker
Shetland coastguard is currently involved in a medivac of a man from the Transocean John Shaw oil rig, approximately 127 miles north east of Sumburgh.
READ FULL STORYGiant expansion planned by Lerwick engineers
Successful Shetland marine engineering company Ocean Kinetics is planning vast new premises in the old pipe yard opposite Lerwick Power Station.
READ FULL STORYOld faces and new announced to play at 31st folk festival
The provisional line-up for the 31st Shetland Folk Festival in the spring has been announced.
READ FULL STORYGovernment will review SIC decision to close Scalloway
The Scalloway community was given fresh hope of a reprieve for its secondary school after the Scottish government announced this week that it will review
READ FULL STORYPensioner has gas bottle stolen and replaced with an empty one
A Tingwall pensioner got a shock last week when she discovered a gas bottle which was stored outside her home had been stolen.
READ FULL STORYWood and wind to mix at new heat plant
Plans are being developed for a wind turbine and wood-burning energy plant on a hill at the north end of Lerwick.
READ FULL STORY‘Negligent’ planners to be questioned after oversight allows Tesco to extend opening
Council planners are to be ticked off again after it emerged they had lost another power to control the expansion of Tesco in Shetland.
READ FULL STORYLetter from Edinburgh
I went to Oldham for a day this week. There’s a by-election! All the parties are asking their supporters for help. A great Liberal, Cyril
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 14.01.2011
On December 23rd 2009, a Transocean rig operating under contract to Shell in the Bardolino field in the North Sea almost suffered a similar blowout
READ FULL STORYTimes Past
Shetland Islands Council has committed itself to fighting against the proposed nuclear fuel processing plant at Dounreay and hopes to see the three islands councils
READ FULL STORYInadequate access
At the risk of being considered repetitive, may I once again express my complete and utter disbelief at the proposals by Shetland Amenity Trust to
READ FULL STORYGood luck with campaign
Skerries School Parent Council would like to say a big thank you to everyone who supported the parents, pupils and people of Skerries in the
READ FULL STORYDon’t kid yourself
Well Gordon Harmer, you’re thrown your gauntlet to the ground: you will need to watch you don’t get cold hands and chilblains (and end up
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