Divisions will lie ahead (Robert Smith)
Could I take this opportunity to thank all the people who voted for me and also those that while supporting Ukip, tactically voted Liberal Democrat….
READ FULL STORYCould I take this opportunity to thank all the people who voted for me and also those that while supporting Ukip, tactically voted Liberal Democrat….
READ FULL STORYI would like to thank everyone who turned out to vote in last week’s General Election. I would particularly like to thank those who voted…
READ FULL STORYI would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Alistair Carmichael on his election as MP for Orkney and Shetland. The margin of 817 votes…
READ FULL STORYSNP candidate Danus Skene is quoted in the online Shetland Times article: “The process I’m trying to describe about a new political dispensation up here is…
READ FULL STORYAlistair Carmichael has spoken about his narrow General Election victory after he emerged as the only surviving Liberal Democrat MP in Scotland.
READ FULL STORYAlistair Carmichael has been returned as Northern Isles MP and the only Lib Dem left in Scotland narrowly defeating the SNP’s Danus Skene.
READ FULL STORYThere has been a 15 per cent increase in the election turnout in Shetland compared with the overall figure for Orkney and Shetland in 2010,
READ FULL STORYA cautious response has been given by Conservative candidate Donald Cameron following an exit poll suggesting his party will be the largest in the Commons….
READ FULL STORYIn this week’s Shetland Times: •Cancer patients in staying at Clan Haven in Aberdeen may have to leave the premises at weekends due to NHS…
READ FULL STORYThe late withdrawal of Liberal Democrat candidate Alistair Carmichael through illness meant last night’s Althing hustings debate consisted of just two candidates.
READ FULL STORYIn this week’s Shetland Times: •A man who was part of an operation supplying heroin from his home will be sentenced on 14th May, following…
READ FULL STORYI note the following regarding the leaked French memo in The Herald on Monday morning.
READ FULL STORYSometimes, maybe not often, politics is too important to leave to the professionals and the deeply unrepresentative minority of party activists and campaigners.
READ FULL STORYA lawyer from the Scottish Highlands has been chosen as Conservative candidate for Orkney and Shetland. Donald Cameron, from Spean Bridge in the Highlands, and
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