Although this is an extract sent to the Shetland News in 1912, it is quite horrifying to hear these opinions still bandied about today in some media, over a century later. “As I said ae time afore, lat dem stick ta dir ain place an’ dir ain wark: lat dem mind da craidle and da […] Shetland News …
Orion is another bold and ambitious project proposed for Shetland. It’s concerning that once again we may be at the mercy of a well-known business strategy known as divide and conquer. This strategy relies on division and quarrelling amongst the people affected so they cannot unite against the conqueror who in this case promises jobs […] Shetland News …
Councillor C Smith jumped before he was pushed. Then councillor M Burgess jumped before he was pushed. Then councillor S Leask jumped before he was pushed. Then councillor I Scott jumped before he was pushed. If you aren’t in the cabal within the council leadership, you are seen as either a threat, or at threat […] Shetland News …
Scotland exports electricity. Scotland exports gas. Scotland exports oil. If there is an energy crisis, it is situated south of the border, both in the lack of energy resources and in poor policy making. Energy prices are going to go up in this energy rich country because we are run from somewhere else for someone […] Shetland News …
Does the Shetland Islands Council’s concern for the safety and well being of disabled people stop at the Laxo and Vidlin ferry terminals? In a report in the media Steel shortage prompts delay in Whalsay linkspan refurbishment; Shetland News, 25 August 2021) it was stated that “councillor Allison Duncan voiced his concern that waiting rooms and […] Shetland News …
Having heard the non-answer to a question put to councillor Coutts on Radio Shetland’sPublic Platform last week, I would like to ask the same question: When will the financial bond be put in place? This bond was a planning consent condition, which stated that the Viking Energy development should not commence unless and until a […] Shetland News …
An outsider reading the letters on both Shetland News and in the Shetland Times would be forgiven for thinking that no one actually wants the wind farm projects, especially not Viking Energy. From the start of this year alone, I counted over 20 ‘anti-wind farm’ letters on Shetland News and not a single one in […] Shetland News …
It is very noticeable that many of the place names collected in Shetland by Jakob Jakobsen 130 years ago have been forgotten. For instance, no one seems to know the whereabouts of the place called Virki that he recorded in the Lund district of Unst. May I ask about another name? Jakobsen heard that the […] Shetland News …
It is becoming more and more obvious that some SIC councillors and unelected officials are suffering from what I call Emperor’s New Clothes Syndrome. Those of you who are familiar with that particular Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale will know where I am coming from with that description. First it was the aptly named Viking […] Shetland News …
Shame on me. Shame on Shetland! Why can we not have our R-PET plastic food trays/containers, etc collected for recycling in Shetland – as these are collected for recycling as standard elsewhere in the UK? I have a room full from over four months of buying our weekly shop in Tesco, Lerwick. Can they not be […] Shetland News …