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A councillor has unsuccessfully railed against a council tax hike of 4.84 per cent, despite telling members the rise was a political choice and not a necessity. Shetland Central councillor Ian Scott’s impassioned plea to ignore official advice to increase council tax by the maximum amount and i... Read more...
An Althing debate on the thorny issue of Scottish independence returned a resounding victory in favour of independence on Friday night. There was not a spare seat in the room for the Althing society's first debate of 2020, with attendees packing out Islesburgh Community Centre's room 10 for the c... Read more...
Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael has criticised the Westminster government’s reaction to the “reckless” US assassination of Iranian military leader Qasem Soleimani. (more…) Read more...
Voters are heading to the polls again today [Thursday] as the first winter general election in almost a century gets under way. (more…) Read more...
Publicly-owned ferry company Caledonian MacBrayne has raised legal proceedings against the Scottish government after its decision to appoint Serco as the preferred bidder for the Northern Isles service. (more…) Read more...
The first of seven general elections hustings set to be held across the Orkney and Shetland constituency took place at Lerwick Town Hall this evening (Friday) – though only a third of the candidates actually attended. With less than three weeks remaining until the country goes to the polls for ... Read more...
Stephen Flaws has emerged victorious in the Lerwick South by-election despite coming second place in first preference votes. Meanwhile, voters in Shetland Central have given their support to Moraig Lyall, who ran out a comfortable winner in the ward's by-election. Voters in the two wards went ... Read more...
The Scottish Greens will not field a Northern Isles candidate in December's snap general election. (more…) Read more...
The first candidate to stand against Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael in the December general election has been declared. Scottish Labour members in the Northern Isles have endorsed chairwoman of the Orkney Labour party Coilla Drake as their candidate for the forthcoming election. On... Read more...
The Westminster government should ditch plans to introduce a compulsory voter ID scheme, according to MP Alistair Carmichael. (more…) Read more...