Who’s telling the truth? (Magnie Stewart)
Twice I have asked, through the letters page of The Shetland Times, for the local SNP to explain what their policy of a “named person”
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Difference of opinion? (Stuart Hannay)
I was interested to read that Tavish Scott was pleased to be endorsed by the Wir Shetland movement.
READ FULL STORYLegality of tax avoidance (Bryon Smith)
First Minister Nicola Sturgeon gave the reason by mistake during the Scottish party leaders’ televised debate last Thursday.
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Listening to BBC Radio Shetland on Friday evening I heard Danus Skene, the SNP candidate for the forthcoming Scottish election, proclaim he would hold an
READ FULL STORYStrict immigration laws are needed (David Cole)
With the terrible happenings in Brussels on Tuesday we must surely impose strict immigration laws on the people of Eastern Europe.
READ FULL STORYNot good for wind developers (James MacKenzie)
It can hardly be a coincidence that Peel Energy has made its application to Scottish ministers for the Beaw Field Windfarm in the same week
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The worth of the Garrison (Hannah Nicholson)
In response to the article in the previous edition regarding the uncertain future of the Garrison Theatre, I must join the organisers of the drama
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Look at external funding (William Polson)
I write this as an open letter to all Shetland Islands Councillors, as information in a statement by Scottish fishing minister Richard Lochhead in Fraserburgh…
READ FULL STORYUnexciting and dreary (Ian Selbie)
A book/film etc, usually finishes with a climax, but Shetland on television was six hours of slow, dreary, worse-than-amateur acting with an unexciting, disappointing last
READ FULL STORYNot the job of the trust (John Tulloch)
It has been claimed elsewhere that oil central heating in Shetland costs 4.5p per unit (kWh).
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Carbon-ara or pizza? (Henry MacColl)
As the date for the review of my refused planning application for a pizzeria at Parkgate approaches (15th March), I find myself trying to make…
READ FULL STORYBiagi tries to spin a yarn (John Tulloch)
Thank you for your report in today’s Shetland Times on Our Islands, Our Future (OIOF)’s sub-glacial progress on devolution.
READ FULL STORYNeed to be informed (David Cole)
So now we know when the referendum on the UK’s membership in Europe is to take place.
READ FULL STORYCrass BBC decision (Larraine Gray)
Why, oh why did the BBC decide to delay the final episode of <i>Shetland</i> until Friday 4th March? This is the second time this has…
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