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A proposal that would have seen local knitwear company BAKKA operate out of a van in the centre of Lerwick has been rejected by the council's licensing committee. The meeting heard from the company's owner, Mary Macgregor, who had hoped to sell her brand of Fair-Isle knitwear from a long wheel-ba... 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...
Shetland mead producer Viking Mead Ltd says it will unveil a crowdfunding effort to fund ambitious growth plans which include the creation of a new brewery in Voe. The organisation is planning to launch the campaign on 27th June. It comes after plans were revealed last year to convert the for... Read more...
Police are appealing for witnesses after two separate incidents. Officers say there has been a theft by housebreaking at the Havly Cafe in Lerwick's Charlotte Street. The incident is said to have happened between 4pm on Wednesday and 7.45 am the next morning. Police are also looking to spea... Read more...
The Shetland team lost 2-1 to the hosts in the semi-finals of the Ynys Môn Island Games football tournament on Thursday evening in front of a good crowd at Anglesey. Ynys Môn 2, Shetland 1 Two goals from Sam Jones proved to be the difference as a battling performance from Kevin Main's si... Read more...
A man has been warned to stay away from drugs in future after being fined £360 at Lerwick Sheriff Court for having cocaine in his town address. Dan Inkster, 32, of Lyndhurst Place, pleaded guilty to possession of the Class A drug on 30th June last year. The court heard Inkster had a previous ... Read more...
A man is back behind bars after admitting assaulting a man with a saucepan and causing injury – an offence which took place just over a month after he was released from prison. Andrew Valentine, 27, of Stirling was sentenced to three months and two weeks after he appeared in the dock before She... 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...