Times Past
Shetland and Orkney fishermen are meeting today to discuss their next steps in a campaign to protect local fishing grounds.
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Times Past
A new landmark has appeared at the Scord – an 80 foot high electricity producing windmill – the first of its kind in Britain.
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The cost of living in rural Shetland is the highest in Scotland. But Lerwegians have a slightly better time of it. These were the two
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Two fires in Sandveien in the past three months have been caused by faulty street light cable which runs through the lofts of some of
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Four Norwegians intent on re-living Viking times arrived in Lerwick harbour on Monday in their two small longships. They have almost completed a voyage round
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Sullom Quarries are helping to lay a new pipeline in the North Sea which will eventually pump an extra 80,000 barrels of oil per day
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Weekend discos and dances in rural halls providing entertainment for young people have been hit by withdrawal of buses from Lerwick.
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The Arun for Aith campaign was given a boost on Wednesday when planning permission was granted for a new pier.
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A new mast recently installed on Bressay should provide stereo radio in the autumn. It will also improve VHF radio reception on portable and car
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After many years on the drawing board the race to find a Shetland flag has started again in earnest. Shetland Tourist Organisation is leading the
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25 Years Ago A public inquiry into plans for a nuclear reprocessing plant at Dounreay in Caithness was announced by the Government earlier this week.
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“Shetland – opportunities for practical, youngish persons with some capital and lots of initiative to become part of island community.” If readers of The Observer,
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Mouthpiece – hello again and welcome to Shetland’s International Youth Year column. Anyone who read last month’s Mouthpiece may have noted that the career’s officer
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Not surprisingly there were only ripples of interest, rather than shock-waves which went around Shetland when the old Zetland County Council and Lerwick Town Council
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