In this week’s Shetland Times
Retiring vet Jim Nicolson. Photo: Dave Donaldson.
In today’s (Friday, 28th May) edition of The Shetland Times:
- NHS Shetland’s reliance on locum staff cost them more than £4 million last year – more than double the previous year.
- Shetland lace is now ‘critically endangered’ – but Sheila Fowlie is keeping it going.
- Retiring vet Jim Nicolson has raised more than £1,000 for Dogs Against Drugs before leaving.
- Lerwick Brewery head brewer Jonny Sandison is gearing up to move into a cocktail delivery business.
- Former Shetland Times editor Adam Civico compiles the Tracks of my Life, while Margaret Morrison takes A Sporting Chance.
- SPORT – After a long, long wait, there are senior hockey and football reports; as well as junior football, bowls, squash and cycling.
Mary Macgregor
correction:
Shetland lace is only added to the red list, ‘endangered’. The only critically endangered craft is hand-blown sheet glass-making. See article:-
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/may/24/kilt-making-and-glassblowing-added-to-list-of-uks-endangered-crafts?utm_source=Permanent+-+Comms&utm_campaign=a56fc052fa-CCHQ+Weekly+Roundup+-+20July+2018_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_56c50d25fe-a56fc052fa-86082498&ct=t(EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_1_12_2018_COPY_01)&mc_cid=a56fc052fa&mc_eid=66e8113fd2
Jane Booth
You are incorrect. Shetland lace knitting is on the critically endangered list https://heritagecrafts.org.uk/redlist/categories-of-risk/#critical. You have misread the correction at the end of the Guardian article in which it says that ,
‘This article was amended on 24 May 2021. It is only hand-blown sheet glass-making that is critically endangered. Glass blowing in general is not endangered, according to the The Heritage Crafts Association’ Previously it had said that glass blowing in general was endangered. If you read the original list on Heritage Crafts you will see that Shetland Lace has been added to the critically endangered list this year.