SNP candidate for the upcoming Shetland West council by-election Zara Pennington says she is standing in the ward again to highlight issues and “hopefully move them forward”. She is one of three candidates in the running for the ward’s vacant, coming up against independent Mark Robinson and Green member Debra Nicolson. Like the other two

GREEN candidate for the Shetland West by-election Debra Nicolson says she will be “going out to win” the contest. She said she “won’t be sit back and think it’s a foregone conclusion”. In something of a streamlined re-run of May’s main election, Nicolson will again come up against the independent Mark Robinson and SNP candidate

PEOPLE have been given more time to submit nomination papers for Shetland’s community council elections after yesterday’s (Thursday) communications blackout and postal strike. The deadline for submission was 4pm on Thursday, but many in Shetland would have been unable to file electronic entries. However five of Shetland’s 18 community councils had achieved their full complement

SATELLITE back-up links are in place in Shetland as a precaution while repairs take place to telecoms cables. Much of Shetland was left without broadband and mobile phone signal on Thursday following damage to a subsea Faroese Telecom cable linking the isles to the Scottish mainland. It followed a fault on Faroese Telecom’s subsea cable

A COUPLE have spoken about their “amazing” experience after a pod of orcas put on a display just metres away from their rowing boat. Ryan and Sara Leith enjoyed the close encounter on Wednesday during a break on Shetland’s Westside. They came across the seven-strong pod while out on a 12 foot rowing boat –