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The fishing boat which ran aground north of Lerwick Harbour in the early hours of Saturday was successfully pulled off later in the day. The Inverness-registered Rosebloom (INS 353) got stuck on the "Soldian", a rock which the current Lerwick lifeboat's predecessor was named after. The lif... Read more...
Shetland Islands Council must ensure that a greater number of affordable houses are built in 2019/20 than in the previous year if it is to meet its aims around attracting professionals and reversing a decline in population. That was the message delivered by members of the SIC development committe... Read more...
Members of the public will be invited to give their opinion on detailed development proposals for "the last big site within the town of Lerwick". An eight-week consultation is set to be launched following the completion of a draft masterplan for the Knab site recently vacated by the old Anderson ... Read more...
The Shetland Classic Car Club proposes that a Shetland Heritage Centre should be established among the remaining unused buildings on the campus at the Knab (which will comprise the original AEI building, the Janet Courtney Hostel and the science block). In the case of the classic car club we imme... Read more...
It has been a memorable week at what will now be regarded as the "old" Anderson High School – with pupils enjoying their last day at the building on Wednesday. Staff have been busy packing up ahead of the move to the new development at the Clickimin. The sprawling Knab development started ou... Read more...
Pupils at the Anderson High School in Lerwick are beginning their final day at the old buildings at the Knab before the move to new premises at Clickimin in just over a fortnight. The flag has his week been flying over the oldest part of the school, which is listed and will remain along w... Read more...
In The Shetland Times this week... • Architects appointed to develop masterplan for the Knab. • Man jailed for thousands of indecent images of children. • Flybe customer bites back as he discovers cost of taking a pet similar to that of a family of four. • Gulberwick fun run rais... Read more...
Lerwick based consultant anaesthetist Catriona Barr had a very close encounter with an orca while she was returning from her swim to the point of the Knab on Wednesday morning. In what is quite possibly the closest anyone has go to an orca in the sea around Shetland, Dr Barr was within five or si... Read more...
Another of the accommodation vessels used by Shetland Gas Plant workers, the Ocean Endeavour, left Lerwick Harbour today. The departure of the cruise ship leaves just the three barges, the Sans Vitesse at Victoria Pier and the Bibby Stockholm and Kalmar at Holmsgarth, left in the town. The... Read more...
A Danish trawler was towed to Lerwick yesterday after her propeller became wound up in the cod end of her own net. The 28-metre Karbak was taken in tow by another Danish stern trawler, the larger Tobis, about 90 miles north-east of Lerwick. It took 24 hours for the two boats to make it... Read more...