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Chief inspector Lindsay Tulloch has not ruled out isles police officers being sent to other parts of the UK in the event of disruption emerging from a no-deal Brexit. Mr Tulloch was speaking at the community safety and resilience board meeting in Lerwick Town Hall this morning. He was aske... Read more...
Scottish fishing chiefs have blasted plans for UK fisheries during the transition period out of the EU – with a Shetland representative describing the negotiations as "feeble". On Monday the EU and Britain agreed a draft Brexit transition deal which will mean Britain will follow EU fishing regu... Read more...
The SNP should drop its support for EU membership, according to a leading member in the party’s local branch who spoke out at the national conference. Yes Shetland minutes secretary Brian Nugent believes his party risks losing any future referendum on independence if it fails to change tack. ... Read more...
Your report on Alistair Carmichael's visit to Whalsay quotes an un-named resident of Da Bonnie Isle as saying the SNP would "sell out" the fishing industry "if they got their independence and get back into Europe". In fact, the sell-out occurred 44 years ago when a Tory government took us into Eu... Read more...
Jonathan Wills’ latest epistle on the fishing is lyrically-spun, fantastic nonsense. Neither the EU nor Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella has any incentive to “harden their view” against Scotland. Quite the opposite applies. The SNP are acting as pro-EU insurgents, trying to derail th... Read more...
It is not surprising that European Fisheries Commissioner Karmenu Vella recently told a Tory MEP the Common Fisheries Policy is not negotiable. That is the default negotiating position and attitudes have hardened due to Teresa May's intransigence. However, the reality is that European Commission ... Read more...
Isles MP Alistair Carmichael has demanded that the government guarantee the rights of EU migrants to be given the right to remain following Brexit. He told the House of Commons on Monday evening that he wanted to explain why the issue mattered to him as "a Liberal and an islander". Mr Carmicha... Read more...
The Scottish government will provide support to Estonia when the eastern European state hosts this year's EU fisheries negotiations. (more…) Read more...
Quota changes have been welcomed by the Shetland Fishermen’s Association, though its chairman has warned Brussels is “still living in its own land of make-believe” when it comes to a discard ban. Leslie Tait said the quota shifts ratified by the December Fisheries Council this week were bro... Read more...
The chairman of the EU Committee of the Regions has said that leaving the EU would be “a huge mistake” for the UK and Shetland. Speaking after a meeting of the committee in Mareel today (Friday) Raffaele Cattaneo, who is president of the Lombardy region, also pinpointed proper broadband provi... Read more...