Call made for funding package to help sporting competitors
Travel costs and other expenses faced by sports people and teams will be highlighted to the Scottish Sports Minister at Holyrood today. Shetland MSP Tavish Scott and Commonwealth Games swimmer Andrea...
View Article‘Jekyll and Hyde’ character jailed for six months
A repeat offender was imprisoned for six months at Lerwick Sheriff Court today after admitting assaults and abusive and threatening behaviour in a police car on 17th January. Owen Finbar Haughian , 32,...
View ArticleKnife man jailed for a year
A man who was arrested in a shop and was found to have a knife on him was imprisoned for a year at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday. George Anthony Hogg, 33, a prisoner at Grampian Prison, appeared...
View ArticlePolice target doorstep crime and driving offenders
Bogus callers and motoring offenders are the target of the latest initiatives being run by police, while efforts are continuing to recruit more support staff. Operation Monarda is the name of the...
View ArticleScalloway Hotel named as regional award winner
The Scalloway Hotel has been named as top islands eatery in what has been dubbed the “Oscars” of hotel awards in Scotland. Husband and wife team Peter McKenzie and Caroline Moyes have picked up a...
View ArticleCup final changes to Thurso
The Shetland football team will be playing in Thurso next weekend in a change of venue for the final of the Jock Mackay Memorial Cup. This morning the Shetland Football Association took to Facebook to...
View ArticleMonty’s Bistro is on the market
Monty’s Bistro has shut it doors and the business is up for sale. Raymond Smith has run the restaurant for the last 19 years but the owner and chef is seeking a new challenge. All members of staff have...
View ArticleBakery celebrates its 100th year in business
Voe Bakery is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year and there will be a weekend of festivities to mark the event at the end of May. The bakery at Lower Voe was started in 1915 to serve the Royal...
View ArticlePolice crackdown leads to heroin seizures
A drugs crackdown resulted in police recovering nearly £4,000 worth of heroin. A 52-year-old man was yesterday arrested in Lerwick after he was stopped by officers and found with about £700 worth of...
View ArticleMusicians to entertain folk in care
People in care settings can look forward to a springtime treat when a group of professional music-lovers come to visit. The musicians will take their live show to 10 venues throughout the isles and...
View ArticleCereal production could bring new opportunities
Growing traditional Shetland oats and barley could help farmers cut down the cost of feed, as well as opening up specialist markets in food, whisky and beer. Less than a hectare of land is used to...
View Article‘Mr Last Ditchology’ retires
There was once a tin hut on Lerwick’s Esplanade which housed the premises of Last Ditchology – the final destination of those with equipment they needed fixed. The hut was the domain of Brian Priest,...
View ArticleAirport strike to go ahead
Airport security staff will stage a 48 hour strike next week after last minute talks aimed at averting a walk out broke down. The failure in negotiations means members of the Prospect Union will...
View ArticleDon’t vote SNP (Graham Johnston)
Sometimes, maybe not often, politics is too important to leave to the professionals and the deeply unrepresentative minority of party activists and campaigners. The voters of Scotland, and Shetland in...
View ArticleMacKenzie renews criticism against SIC on school closures
A Highland and Islands MSP has criticised the SIC after a new body was set up to make decisions on controversial school closures. List MSP Mike MacKenzie said that the council should learn from the...
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Gadderie show is all about Journeying
Red Hull by Jack Chesterman. Artist Jack Chesterman’s exhibition Archaeology of Journeying will be running at the Gadderie in Shetland Museum from Saturday until 17th May. Chesterman has had a...
View ArticleThings don’t just ‘happen’ (Judith Dumont)
I note the following regarding the leaked French memo in The Herald on Monday morning. “[Alistair] Carmichael confirmed the memo was written at the Scotland Office. ” … Mr Carmichael replied: ‘No....
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Bafta-nominated film maker given new isles role
The University of the Highlands and Islands has appointed a BAFTA-nominated film and television producer as its first ever chairman of creative industries. Professor Robin MacPherson, who has worked in...
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Predictor puts SNP ahead in running for Northern Isles seat
A new scientific election predictor suggests that the SNP are ahead in the race for the Orkney and Shetland seat in next month’s UK General Election. According to statistics from Electoral Calculus the...
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‘Shetland’ filming to disrupt Commercial Street
Filming for the next episodes of the television drama Shetland will take place on Thursday in Lerwick, and part of Commercial Street will be closed to traffic that day. The filming will be in the...
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