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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...
MSP Maree Todd says new analysis shows just how "devastating" Brexit will be for Shetland. (more…) Read more...
MSP Beatrice Wishart quizzed engineers from Openreach about Shetland's digital future during a drop-in session at the Scottish Parliament last Thursday. (more…) Read more...
The Althing debating group committee has met and decided on debate topics and dates for the coming season. (more…) Read more...
The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland is seeking the public's views on new proposals for ward boundaries in the isles. The Commission have today announced a public consultation, set to run until Monday 2nd December, in order to take into account the views of local communities befo... Read more...
MSP Beatrice Wishart has pressed First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on whether the Scottish government will live up to promises made during the by-election campaign. At First Minister’s Questions the new MSP asked Ms Sturgeon to set out the Government’s priorities for action on the lifeline servi... Read more...
Shetland's new MSP Beatrice Wishart was sworn in at Holyrood on Tuesday and immediately vowed to try and improve nursery care in the isles. (more…) Read more...