Roads are flooded after deluge

Today’s heavy rain has brought disruption to the roads, as this picture close to our offices at Gremista in Lerwick shows.
Today’s heavy rain has brought disruption to the roads, as this picture close to our offices at Gremista in Lerwick shows.
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Ryan Taylor has worked as a reporter since 1995, and has been at The Shetland Times since 2007, covering a wide variety of news topics. Before then he reported for other newspapers in the Highlands, where he was raised, and in Fife, where he began his career with DC Thomson. He also has experience in broadcast journalism with Grampian Television. He has lived in Shetland since 2002, where he harbours an unhealthy interest in old cars and motorbikes.
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Jim leask
While I applauded the idea to reduce the speed limits leading into and out of the south road there is also a need for better lighting and a crossing nearer the westerloch junction as there are a large number of AHS students who walk home by the back of the loch and cross the road there rather than back track down to the crossing at the sound service station
When they are heading to the new estates near the new baptist church or any of the houses out that area of the town
This time of year it is very dark around that area as the school closes and in my opinion quite dangerous for both students and drivers