AS THE year draws to a close, we wish to offer our sincere thanks to all our readers, advertisers, contributors and supporters who all play their valuable part in ensuring that Shetland News exists and continues to report the local news in a way you have come to appreciate. Read more Shetland News …
A WELL KNOWN and outspoken local tour guide is asking islanders to sign an online petition calling on councillors and senior council officials not to attend celebrations early next week which are being held to mark the completion of the Viking Energy wind farm. Read more Shetland News …
IT IS a “humbling” moment this weekend for Norik jarl Ashley Spence leads Shetland’s most northerly Up Helly Aa. The 34-year-old is following in family footsteps, with his grandad jarl in 1986 and his father then leading the Unst event a decade later. Read more Shetland News …
AT LEAST one per cent of the islands population, and possibly more, are using the Shetland Foodbank on a regular basis. Read more Shetland News …
THE TWO-day Taste of Shetland food and drink festival kicked off at the Clickimin earlier today (Saturday) with a range of live cooking demonstrations, workshops and stalls. Chair of Shetland Food & Drink Marian Armitage said there was a “buzz” around the Clickimin as visitors sampled various foods and watched the live shows. Read more Shetland News …
A TREE thought to be more than 100 years old has been cut down in Yell by power company SSEN without the landowners’ knowledge or permission. Landowner Rowland Morewood described the incident, at Seafield House in North-a-Voe, as an “awful shame”. Read more Shetland News …
TRIBUTES have been paid to former BBC cameraman John Waters who passed away last Thursday, aged 79. John was a familiar face throughout Shetland having covered most of the major news stories since the early 1990s. Read more Shetland News …
WITH the Viking Energy turbines going up at some considerable speed, islanders on both sides of the argument over the controversial project will have to get used to the new reality. Read more Shetland News …
THOUSANDS of pounds have been raised for two local causes after an Islesburgh steward ran home back to Clousta after retiring. Ian Davidge undertook the run from Lerwick to the Westside, which covered around 20 miles, on Sunday morning – setting off shortly after 6am. Read more Shetland News …
A PROPOSED new long-distance walking route which would run the length of Shetland could generate £41 million for the local economy over the next decade, a feasibility study has concluded. Read more Shetland News …