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The Shetland Times Ltd is Shetland’s leading communications organisation. Founded in 1872 the company publishes the islands’ popular weekly newspaper The Shetland Times.
Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael has voiced his saddness at the resignation as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats of re-elected MSP Tavish Scott.
READ FULL STORYNow safely re-elected, Tavish Scott drops his pretence on the Viking Energy windfarm.
READ FULL STORY“I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists”, declared the BBC’s Andrew Marr last month, as he admitted finally that gagging
READ FULL STORYThe hype around the band may have faded, but Chris Cope finds Oscar Charlie more confident and more hopeful than ever.
READ FULL STORYPlaying political games with Canada’s North It is election time again in Canada, which means a whole lot of vague spending platforms, photo ops in
READ FULL STORYWhen the massive earthquake hit Japan in March, former Shetland Life columnist Emily MacFarlane was working in Sendai, close to the epicentre. Here, she describes
READ FULL STORYOk, let me declare my interest straight off the bat – on May 5th, along with my Holyrood parliamentary votes, I will be voting YES
READ FULL STORYProud parents waved and the brass band played on Saturday morning as launches ferried 134 excited Shetland children to the educational cruise ship Dunera, which
READ FULL STORYAt the beginning of this year, the group’s morale was boosted when a lady offered to run a small cat shelter for us on her
READ FULL STORYA bid by seven councillors to halt the closure of Scalloway School’s secondary department until the new Anderson High School is built is not competent
READ FULL STORYChristopher Ritch should check his facts before accusing people of hypocrisy.
READ FULL STORYSix men were rescued from a fishing boat which ran aground in 40 knot winds in the early hours of this morning half a mile
READ FULL STORYTavish Scott resigned as leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats today after the party’s disastrous showing in the Scottish Parliament election on Thursday.
READ FULL STORYVoters in Shetland rejected the introduction of the alternative vote for elections to Westminster in the nationwide referendum carried out at the same time as
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