Man, 23, hurt near Lerwick Boating Club
Police are investigating an incident in Lerwick in the early hours of yesterday morning. (more…) Read more...
Police are investigating an incident in Lerwick in the early hours of yesterday morning. (more…) Read more...
In winter, there’s a natural tendency to ‘coorie in’, to nestle around the stove and huddle together against the darkness and raging storms outside. But long experience has taught islanders that you need fight off and illuminate the darkness, to get out and about, socialise and affirm both... Read more...
Council convener Sandy Cluness says the opportunity for more local control should be grasped. In a couple of years or so we will have a fundamental choice to make: whether to restore Scotland’s independence after 300 years, or to remain part of the United Kingdom. (more…) Read more...
by Clive Munro "So, Clive, what's your Top 10 albums of all time ?" No-one's asked me that in a long time but when Tom asked me about doing a music column for Shetland Life I remembered that he had run a feature in The Shetland Times back in the late 80s in which (relatively) well known Shetlander... Read more...
Sigurd the Tentative, Bohemian Viking! Follow his adventures ONLY in the print version of Shetland Life. Subscribe or buy throughout Shetland. Contact adverts@shetlandtimes.co.uk for subscription details Read more...
From The Shetland Times, Friday 29th December 1961 Shetland Chamber of Commerce considered the time ripe for the re-opening of the question of protecting the name "Shetland" in connection with the local woollen industry, and offered S.W.I.A Ltd. all support towards that end. The latter organisation... Read more...
From Shetland Life, December 1986, No.74 (Extract from) Editorial Comment: A Year of Mixed Fortunes 1986 will soon be over. It has been a year of mixed fortunes for Shetland culminating in the terrible tragedy near Sumburgh when 45 men lost their lives. (more…) Read more...