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New company Toll Clock Investments (TCI) was today confirmed as the new owners of the Toll Clock Shopping Centre. The centre has been up for sale since August 2018 and had an initial asking price of £1.8 million. TCI was registered in June this year by Millgaet Media director Malcolm Younger.... Read more...
Lerwick could be set to lose another pub, after the owner of Captain Flint's applied for planning permission to turn the building into apartments instead. Flint's owner Ian Cunynghame has applied to redevelop the current two-storey pub into a set of three apartments and three en-suite bedrooms in... Read more...
Shetland Sport for All were the big winners at this year's Loot for Lerwick event in Islesburgh. The annual event, held by the Lerwick Community Council, took place on Saturday morning and gave members of the public the chance to decide which charities should benefit from a share of £5000. Si... Read more...
The UK government and Britain's four largest mobile phone companies have agreed a £1 billion deal to improve mobile reception coverage in some of the UK's most rural areas, a deal that is hoped will drastically improve Shetland's mobile coverage. The deal, supported by EE, O2, Vodafone and Three... Read more...
Government regulator Ofgem have said they are "unable to approve" plans to build a subsea electricity transmission cable between Shetland and the mainland, in a further blow to the Viking Energy windfarm development. This comes only a month after Viking failed to win government backing in the lat... Read more...
NHS Grampian and NorthLink have both warned passengers to be wary of the symptoms of measles after a passenger on a north-bound sailing was later found to have had the illness. A widely-shared post on social media revealed that passengers who had travelled from Aberdeen to Shetland on Monday 7th ... Read more...
You may not have heard of endometriosis, but affecting one in ten women it is now just as common as diabetes. The incurable condition, which is caused by the lining of the uterus growing outside of the womb and trapping blood during periods, can result in debilitating pain and can adversely affec... Read more...
Vandals have once again damaged floodlights at the Clickimin Broch, hitting plans to light the broch for baby loss awareness week. (more…) Read more...
A fourteen-year-old boy from Mid Yell with a range of debilitating mobility issues has completed an exhausting 20km challenge in just two days while fundraising for a new wheelchair. Brynn Hauxwell covered 10km on both Saturday and Sunday, navigating steep hills and sharp declines in Fethaland on... Read more...
Shetland punk-rock outfit Forgotten Sons have released their latest EP Angst and Apathy today, their third album release since the inception of the band in 2015 and their first under American record label Manic Kat Records. The group has come a long way in a short time, working with two l... Read more...