PLANS have been lodged to modify and refurbish the Brough kirk in Whalsay after the building was taken on by the community. A ...

STAFF at Cooke Aquaculture have helped raise more than £4,500 to go to care home residents at three isles homes. A Christmas ...

THE BURN of Lunklet may no longer be “significantly acidified”, with “signs of improvement” noticeable. However the burn – ...

MORE than half-a-million pounds of drugs have been recovered by police in Shetland this year. Chief inspector Chris Sewell, ...

THE UK Government is to invest £10 million into SaxaVord Spaceport to help accelerate its capital works programme. The announcement was made by Jeremy Hunt, the UK chancellor, during his budget ...

THE CHAIRMAN of Lerwick Community Council has questioned if it would be more cost effective to try to demolish the Janet Courtney hostel at the former Anderson High School and construct a new build ...

THE REBUILD of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory is to benefit from UK Government funding worth £550,000. The money is coming from the government’s Community Ownership Fund. It is the second time in a ...

COASTGUARD crew members laid a wreath in Bressay at the weekend honouring helicopter winchman Bill Deacon, who was lost during a rescue in the late 1990s. Deacon tragically died at sea on 19 November ...

A LOCAL archaeology group will be exploring wartime Lerwick next week in a series of special events to mark the completion of their recording project on WWII sites around the town. Archaeology ...

THIS WEEKEND sees the welcome return of an institution in Shetland folk music with the three-day long Peerie Xmas Spree set to bring warmth, seasonal spirit and above all top-class tunes to halls ...

TOMMY and Mary Isbister – of Trondra’s Burland Croft – have been named People of the Year at the 2024 Slow Food Awards. Uradale Farm was also the winner of the Producer of the Year prize at the awards ...

A LOCAL man who assaulted his partner in the early hours of Up Helly Aa night at an address in Lerwick has been given a prison sentence. Barry Coutts, whose address was given as no fixed abode, was ...