SHETLAND Arts chief executive Graeme Howell says a potential funding boost from Creative Scotland would “greatly enhance” the ...

CONSTRUCTION on the long-awaited 3G football and rugby pitch in Lerwick is set to now start in February. Work had been ...

KING HARALD Street in Lerwick has been described as “incredibly dangerous” for young children to cross. That view has come ...

LERWICK Community Council is to object to plans to build a 132kV substation to connect to the proposed eight-turbine Mossy ...

A SHETLAND charity has donated £15,000 to buy 15 specialist mattresses for NHS Shetland patients. Cancer Shetland, which was ...

A LOCAL doctor who heads up Shetland’s only remaining independent medical practice says it is now more than a year that a vacancy for an associate GP has remained unfilled. It comes as the chair of ...

AN ORKNEY ferry company which previously floated the idea of sailings between Caithness and Shetland says it is not considering introducing trips to the isles in peak periods. Pentland Ferries’ ...

THE CHIEF executive of Loganair Jonathan Hinkles has stepped down from his post with immediate effect. The unexpected move coincided with yesterday’s (Thursday) announcement of the retirement of the ...

A LERWICK postmaster has been elected to the board of Post Office Ltd as a non-executive director. Brian Smith, who runs the Freefield post office and Clocktower shop within the Toll Clock Shopping ...

SSEN says work is ongoing to strengthen control measures in Kergord after the Weisdale Burn was affected by sediment run-off last week. The burn was pictured a brown colour following heavy rain on ...

ALMOST exactly 200 years after the beginnings of the Methodist Church in Shetland, local minister Andrew Fox is in the middle of a pilgrimage across the isles to mark the occasion and spread the word ...

Shetland has enough wind, tide and waves to power our community many times over, but at present we get less than a tenth of our energy from renewables. Around 20 per cent of our electricity comes from ...