Nugent warns SNP conference: ditch the EU or lose supporters
The SNP should drop its support for EU membership, according to a leading member in the party’s local branch who spoke out at the national…
READ FULL STORYThe SNP should drop its support for EU membership, according to a leading member in the party’s local branch who spoke out at the national…
READ FULL STORYFirstly to Alistair Carmichael’s Letter from Westminster. I must take issue with his assertion that the current minority Conservative Government “can not continue in this
READ FULL STORYAlistair Carmichael has been returned as Shetland and Orkney MP in a landslide victory.
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READ FULL STORYThe polls are open for what Theresa May has dubbed “the most important election” of her lifetime and in Shetland and Orkney the result looks
READ FULL STORY‘Other than marching against the Iraq war through the streets of Lerwick, one of my earliest memories of being politically active was listening to Alistair…
READ FULL STORYThe would-be main contenders like, predictably, to characterise the Orkney and Shetland election as a “two-horse race”. However, I’m not so sure.
READ FULL STORYOn the campaign trail with SNP candidate Miriam Brett.
READ FULL STORYYour report on Alistair Carmichael’s visit to Whalsay quotes an un-named resident of Da Bonnie Isle as saying the SNP would “sell out” the fishing…
READ FULL STORYA bonnie day in the Bonnie Isle saw Lib Dem candidate Alistair Carmichael argue his case between the rattle and hum of lawnmowers and folk
READ FULL STORYThe SNP has the greatest chance of securing the best deal for Shetland’s fishing fleet, asays Jonathan Wills.
READ FULL STORYThe SNP are making a huge fuss over Alistair Carmichael’s lie about the leaking of a conversation between Nicola Sturgeon and the French ambassador in
READ FULL STORYThe refusal by the SNP General Election candidate to support local fishermen by signing the Scottish Fishermen’s Federation pledge tells us a little about her
READ FULL STORYI have voted Labour at every election since 1970, except in those when I chose the Scottish Socialist Party. On this occasion I won’t, for
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