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Councillors urged to save Fair Isle air link
Councillors are being urged to save the air link between the Mainland and Fair Isle with an annual grant of £15,000 to the National Trust
READ FULL STORYBurradale windfarm open to public as part of renewables festival
The Burradale windfarm above the Brig of Fitch will be open to the public this weekend as part of a Highlands and Islands-wide event designed
READ FULL STORYFolk urged to be vigilant over flu outbreak
Medical staff in Shetland are counselling against complacency over the swine flu outbreak after it was accorded pandemic status this week by the World Health
READ FULL STORYSpending watchdog criticises councillors
By PAUL RIDDELL Councillors in Shetland have failed to show that they are able to take the tough decisions required to halt runaway spending of…
READ FULL STORYLeading TV producer buys rights to film Cleeves crime quartet
By PAUL RIDDELL Crime writer Ann Cleeves’ quartet of novels set in Shetland may be turned into a prime-time television drama series after a leading…
READ FULL STORYArchives reveal 70s fear over breakaway
By PAUL RIDDELL Whitehall civil servants believed Shetland and Orkney might split off from an independent Scotland in the mid-1970s and take 53 per cent…
READ FULL STORYSchool building is ‘past its shelf life’ warns head teacher
By PAUL RIDDELL The appalling condition of the Anderson High School was revealed in detail by headteacher Valerie Nicolson this week after she was forced…
READ FULL STORYWealthy middle eastern oil producer now largest shareholder in terminal
By PAUL RIDDELL THE LARGEST single share of the Sullom Voe oil terminal is now effectively owned by the government of a wealthy middle eastern…
READ FULL STORYWindfarm goes to the heart of the matter
IN THE third and final part of his series on the proposed Viking Energy windfarm, PAUL RIDDELL examines the financial impetus behind the project, the…
READ FULL STORYWind power works on a global scale but what will it do to islanders’ health?
In the second of a three-part series on the proposed Viking Energy windfarm, PAUL RIDDELL asks whether wind power is a reliable source of electricity…
READ FULL STORYLeading chef praises fine food as he thinks of setting up in the isles
By PAUL RIDDELL SHETLAND’S first food festival and the quality of island food generally won ringing endorsements from popular TV chef Jean Christophe Novelli, who…
READ FULL STORYHow a windfarm of 154 turbines each as tall as the Great Pyramid has divided community and provoked bitter debate over future of the isles
By PAUL RIDDELL THERE will be 154 of them, each as tall as the Great Pyramid, stretching across the north central Mainland, a colossal man-made…
READ FULL STORYExperts urge action to protect coastal areas as they sound alert on sea levels
By PAUL RIDDELL SEA LEVELS around Shetland will rise in the next 75 years by more than elsewhere in Scotland, according to a major new…
READ FULL STORYMandy’s death was murder, not suicide, says her father
By PAUL RIDDELL THE FATHER of Burra woman Mandy Horne confirmed this week what many people in the isles appear to have known but has…
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