Stories tagged with Tag: Times Past

Times Past

Lerwick Harbour Trust still wants to demolish the controversial wooden walkway at Albert Buildings on the Esplanade but trustees will have to get planning permission

March 25, 2011 | 12.23am
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Two youths have been charged in connection with the theft of the model clipper Matchless from the Shetland Museum last month.

March 18, 2011 | 12.37am
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A threat to evict BP from council-owned land at Sullom Voe has failed to bring the oil industry back to the negotiating table over the

March 11, 2011 | 12.04am
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“There’s nothing to match it” – that’s Charles Fordyce’s comment on Shetland’s newest nightspot, “Nightmagic”.

February 25, 2011 | 12.24am
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A Shetland woman, who is watching with keen interest events in Haiti, is Mrs Martha Goodlad, of the Cutts, Trondra.

February 18, 2011 | 12.07am
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There were signs this week that Lord Lyon, the heraldic official who regulates the use of flags, banners and standards in Scotland, may have found

February 11, 2011 | 12.13am
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Fish processors in Shetland have been warned that they could lose council financial help if their products do not come up to standards set by

February 3, 2011 | 12.09am
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The legendary Shetland scholar Laurence Leask Johnson, who died last month, has left his entire collection of more than 2000 books to the library –

January 27, 2011 | 1.44pm
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Repair work on SIC Cruden houses has increased their value eight or nine times, councillors were told on Monday, but there is nothing the council

January 21, 2011 | 12.52am
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Shetland Islands Council has com­mitted itself to fighting against the proposed nuclear fuel processing plant at Dounreay and hopes to see the three islands councils

January 14, 2011 | 12.25am
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Shetland had a white New Year and a fairly quiet one. Snow and ice kept most folk off the roads and the going on foot

January 7, 2011 | 12.34am
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Shetland’s posties have been literally run off their feet this Christmas, with the Post Office reporting a five per cent increase over last year in

December 31, 2010 | 12.01am
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The chairman of the SIC’s new dev­elopment sub-committee came back to the full council this week and complained that the spending powers he had been

December 24, 2010 | 12.52am
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Purse net skippers rebelled this week against regulations which stop them landing herring and mackerel to be made into fishmeal.

December 17, 2010 | 12.02am
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