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An appeal has been made for volunteers to help move crates of food to the Shetland Foodbank premises this weekend. David Grieve of the organisation is looking for willing people able to shift the crates from the Tesco van on Saturday. It comes as preparations are underway for the big summer sp... Read more...
A car was on fire in the south of Lerwick this morning (Wednesday), prompting the attendance of a fire engine. The vehicle was at the South Road roundabout, near Tesco, when the emergency services were called at 8.42am. No-one was injured. A fire engine from Lerwick Fire Station arrived at 8.5... Read more...
Supermarket shoppers donated 130 trays of food at the weekend which were delivered to the Shetland Foodbank on Monday. (more…) Read more...
Wendy Grant took this video of orcas coming close inshore near Tesco’s this afternoon. Were they hungry and looking for something to eat? The pod is one of several that have been seen by hundreds of people around Shetland in recent weeks Read more...
"I'm an elected councillor and the people I represent want this to happen." So says Jonathan Wills (Shetland Times, 11th December) on the subject of a local call-handling centre. How true that a councillor should represent the will of the electorate, but how frequently and conveniently this is fo... Read more...
An offender who has been "a pain in the side" of the court has been allowed his liberty after a sheriff ruled he should be trusted to keep his nose clean. Twenty-two year-old Trevor Couper was ordered to stay out of Lerwick when he was released on bail yesterday to an address in Voe. He admitted ... Read more...
Tesco is considering making a permanent arrangement to supply food to the Salvation Army after a huge uptake last week of its foodbank donation scheme. A total of 192 trays of goods have today been ferrying their way from the Lerwick store to the charity's premises in North Road. The massi... Read more...
A Lerwick resident has been remanded in custody after he admitted pilfering goods from two stores in the town. Simon Edwards, 41, of Hoofields, stole two gift sets from Boots on 17th December. But his thieving did not stop and he went on to steal four computer games from Tesco yesterday. Both off... Read more...
Tesco unrolled its new delivery service today with deliveries to customers throughout the North Mainland – the most northerly delivery route Tesco has even undertaken. (more…) Read more...
In the wake of the severe weather preceding Christmas 2012, which seriously disrupted the North Boats and ultimately led to the Tesco "airlift" to these beleaguered islands, I wrote to The Shetland Times extolling the virtues of the excellent shops in the North Isles and the good service and range o... Read more...