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I'll miss the Chief Executive's office. For the last 12 months or so I've been helping out the Council as 'communications consultant', and I've had a desk in the rather lovely suite, just below the Town Hall clock, which used to house the council's top manager. (more…) Read more...
Shetlander Ronnie Smith has announced his retirement as Scotland’s head of all teachers, the General Secretary of the union the Education Institute of Scotland. Chris Cope visited him in Edinburgh. (more…) 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...
Among charity shops, it is a legend. It is the motherlode, the Aladdin's Cave, a treasury of delights for those of us who love to sift through the second-hand. It is El Dorado. The real Treasure Island. People speak of Whalsay's Shoard shop in hushed voices, plotting expeditions, trying to fit its f... Read more...
Many languages have two ways of saying you – a familiar one and a formal, polite one. In French we find tu (familiar) and vous (formal, polite). German has du (familiar) and sie (formal, polite). Old English also had this distinction when the plural you was used in preference to the now obsole... Read more...