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The St Magnus Bay Hotel in Hillswick has taken the decision to ban "party buses" after damage was caused to the hotel over the weekend. The men's toilets were trashed and a children's ride-on toy car was broken on Saturday afternoon, and owner Andrea Manson said they had decided to stop serving v... Read more...
Two more candidates have entered the field to replace Tavish Scott as Shetland's MSP at Holyrood. The Scottish Labour Party has selected Johan Adamson to fight the upcoming by-election while SIC councillor Ryan Thomson has announced he will stand as an independent candidate. Mrs Adamson, w... Read more...
A proposed Premier Inn hotel on the old Brevik House site has been granted planning permission by the SIC, subject to conditions. Previous planning permission for a 91 bedroom hotel on the same site was granted in March 2017, before developer Breiwick Bay Properties Ltd turned their attention tow... Read more...
A controversial net washing plant that was proposed to be built at Toft Pier has been refused planning permission by the SIC. The planning application was updated on Wednesday, 3rd July to reveal that the status of the application had been decided, and the application had been refused. In the ... Read more...
The new Eric Gray centre had its official opening on Saturday morning. Named 'Eric Gray@Seafield', the centre has been open to staff and service users since January of this year, but was declared officially open in a well-attended ceremony that involved local councillors, service users and staff.... Read more...
The Shetland football team suffered a heavy defeat to the Isle of Man on Friday. Isle of Man won 5-0 to clinch a bronze place at the Ynys Môn Island Games football tournament. After going down to a narrow 2-1 defeat to the host team yesterday, the Isle of Man proved too strong for Shetland to... Read more...
The owner of the Mackenzie's Farm Shop in Cunningsburgh has won a top award at this year's Highland Show. Hazel Mackenzie was announced as the regional winner of the Prince’s Countryside Fund and M&S Farm Resilience Award at the event on Thursday. During the presentation, Ms Mackenzie wa... Read more...
The environmental group Eco Youth Shetland have led around 100 pupils from the new Anderson High to the Town Hall on Friday morning. Replete with hi-vis jackets, the group chanted for climate justice as they marched up Hayfield Lane and down Cockatoo Brae. Pupils from the Brae and Aith schools... Read more...
A Bristow helicopter landed at Sumburgh this morning after declaring an "on-board emergency". Around 20 passengers were onboard the flight when the emergency was declared. A spokesman for the company said: "A Sikorksy S92 aircraft operating from Aberdeen made a safe, precautionary landing in S... Read more...
The cost of reaching the mainland on the Northlink ferry is "absolutely abhorrent", councillor John Fraser has said. His comments came during a meeting of the council's external transport forum, which heard representations from Transport Scotland, Serco NorthLink and Loganair. Head of ferries ... Read more...