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Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael has renewed his calls for another referendum, commenting after Prime Minister Theresa May announced she was to step down. In an emotional statement outside 10 Downing Street, Mrs May said she would resign on Friday 7th June – paving the way for a leadershi... Read more...
This week's budget lacks long-term credibility – overshadowed by the prospect of a "no deal Brexit". (more…) Read more...
Early in his political career former councillor JONATHAN WILLS stood as a Labour Party candidate. The failings of the Common Fisheries Policy were at the heart of his campaign. More than 40 years later he feels just as passionately about fisheries management but argues that the SNP has the greatest ... Read more...
The Northern Isles could lose out if the Westminster government walks away from a commitment to deliver broadband to all areas – including the most remote. (more…) Read more...
Listening to BBC Radio Shetland on Friday evening I heard Danus Skene, the SNP candidate for the forthcoming Scottish election, proclaim he would hold an SNP government to account over matters pertaining to Shetland. He seemed to be under the delusion that being an SNP back-bencher in an SNP gove... Read more...
Shetland Islands council’s annual funding from the SNP Scottish government has been cut by five per cent (to £82 million), a larger cut than suffered by any other council. That this cut has been imposed despite an increase in Holyrood’s own funding means it cannot be blamed on Westminster bu... Read more...
In a week when local councils are being asked to accept a £350 million cut in their support grant from the Scottish government, the question has to be asked, why? The SNP argued that they wanted more powers for Holyrood – but now that they have them they are not using them. They claim to be an... Read more...
The Crown Estate's income from the seabed around Shetland should be re-invested in the NAFC Marine Centre, Shetland MSP Tavish Scott believes. Speaking at a salmon farming seminar in Lerwick he pressed for the immediate devolution of the seabed powers to Shetland. The income, running into mill... Read more...
The case at the High Court in Edinburgh against isles MP Alistair Carmichael should be dismissed, his legal representative has argued. (more…) Read more...
Listening with half my usual attentiveness to Farming Today this morning at a quarter to six I nearly missed a fascinating item from our very own John Johnston. I had thought we had plumbed the depths of the nationalists' political control freakery with their Named Persons legislation, granting t... Read more...