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Despite strong winds and showers, Northmavine Up-Helly-A’ is off to a great start. Guizer Jarl Fraser Anderson and his squad are in good form as they make their morning visits around the district. Fraser is joined in the squad by a very special peerie viking – his baby daughter, Kaytlyn, w... Read more...
Revelers at the Northmavine Up-Helly-A' hop night will be given an extra hour to drink up after an application for a licensing extension was granted. Applicant Neil Doull was seeking an extension of licensed hours allowing the Sullom and Gunnister hall to serve drink until 2am instead of 1am duri... Read more...
Long-time North Roe resident Kevin Jamieson's day as Northmavine Guizer Jarl is up and running. (more…) Read more...
A “boannie day abune” greeted Guizer Jarl Liam Doull and his squad as they gathered early for the start of the Northmavine Up Helly A’. (more…) Read more...
The North Isles, Northmavine and the outer isles have all been designated as fragile areas in a report for the Tackling Inequalities Commission that met in Lerwick on Wednesday. (more…) Read more...
Several of the late film-maker Jenny Gilbertson's productions are being screened next week, with the hope of identifying some of the people who appeared in them. The two screenings, at Shetland Museum and the Hillswick hall, have been organised by Gilbertson's biographer Shona Main, along with th... Read more...
Closure-threatened primary schools in Northmavine have been given a reprieve after councillors stepped back from letting the axe fall. (more…) Read more...
Councillors have stopped short of moving to close two primary schools in Northmavine following a debate in the town hall lasting over three hours. (more…) Read more...
A petition against the closure of Urafirth Primary School has been handed to council convener Malcolm Bell on the steps of the town hall. (more…) Read more...
Howling winds whistled and whipped past parked cars as folk waited in the darkness, in anticipation. As proud Guizer Jarl Kenny Williamson and his boar skin-clad vikings led the galley to the water, a bluster of burning embers followed in their wake. Coat hoods were pulled a little tighter but the... Read more...