Dismay and disappointment
Shetland Arts would like to express its displeasure and distress at the manner in which recent redundancies have been reported within The Shetland Times.
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No problem with workers (Davy Napier)
Unlike Sandy McMillan (Readers’ Views, 31st July) I will not say I am writing on behalf of the residents near the new school works. But as…
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Closure of bus station (Johann Siebert)
Margaret Thatcher once remarked anyone who didn’t drive to work in their own car was a social failure.
READ FULL STORYSounding Off … an occasional commentary
Jonathan Wills, in a contribution entitled The Secret Life of Shetland Islands Council (aged 40½), bemoans the meeting structure of the local authority in its
READ FULL STORYFairer fuel prices (Ian Perry)
We all love having a good moan about the high price of living in Shetland.
READ FULL STORYHow many ‘near misses’? (Dorothy Harcus)
The longer I live, the more convinced I become that politics is a dirty business. I’m so mad at the SNP’s carry-on over our MP
READ FULL STORYStatesmanlike intervention (Allan Sutherland)
The irony of Alistair Carmichael’s statesmanlike, decisive, intervention in Parliament on EVEL will surely not be lost on those conducting a witch hunt against him
READ FULL STORYBlinkered nationalism (Andy Holt)
Listening with half my usual attentiveness to Farming Today this morning at a quarter to six I nearly missed a fascinating item from our very
READ FULL STORYJust following the council (Jonathan Wills)
I was a bit surprised to see my friend Gary Robinson’s reported remarks criticising the Shetland Charitable Trust.
READ FULL STORYFaroese-style autonomy (John Tulloch)
Well said Mark Wylie, I agree with every word. The sporting and leisure communities need to wake up to the looming threat to their…
READ FULL STORYCrazy move by trust (Mark Wylie)
So Shetland Charitable Trust has decided to stop funding the famous isles music festivals and make drastic cuts to Shetland’s popular leisure facilities. Surely, when…
READ FULL STORYWhy I started the petition (John Neicho)
I’m an Englishman who has made Shetland his home. I abhor sectarianism – something I saw too much of during my time in the British
READ FULL STORYDo it the Shetland way (Robbie McGregor)
Dear members of the “We The People of Shetland of Shetland” group. In response to your open letter to the political parties in Shetland I
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I read with interest the open letter prepared by “The People of Shetland”, and wondered whether indeed each and every person of Shetland had signed
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