Christmas craft and food fair lined up for Clickimin
Clickimin is set to host a Christmas shopping extravaganza this weekend as 59 stalls selling locally-produced arts and crafts cram into the main hall.
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Acoustic power trio warm up winter night at Mareel
The audience who had braved icy winds and torrential rain on Sunday to make the trip to Mareel were treated to a diverse and rousing…
READ FULL STORYNew hotel to be ‘home from home’ for oil workers – but locals welcome too
If the development of Total’s new gas plant is out of sight, construction of the Moorfield Hotel in Brae has been a conspicuous sign of
READ FULL STORYGrand finale from April Verch provides highlight at Hamnavoe
Hamnavoe Hall filled to the brim last night as crowds gathered to hear what the 33rd folk festival had to offer.
READ FULL STORYOpening night Cunningsburgh show lives up to expectations
The line-up last night at Cunningsburgh on the opening night of the 33rd Shetland Folk Festival promised much. And it promptly delivered on a committee
READ FULL STORYShetland: a model for the future
As tidal, wave and offshore wind power generation become ever more serious options for Shetland’s seas, we could lose control over their development. But, says
READ FULL STORYShetland Life Editorial: Ursine activity spotted Nort!
The bears are back! I remember when that headline popped up in The Shetland Times, back in early 1988 I think. The CUI (Corrosion Under
READ FULL STORYBig success for Mareel as cinema bug bites in Shetland
Mareel has attracted nearly three times its expected cinema audience during its first seven weeks of operation, according to Shetland Arts director Gwilym Gibbons.
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Forty years after the first ‘hippies’ came to the island, and with only eight full-time residents, Andy Holt asks if there’s still hope for the
READ FULL STORYShetland Life: Editorial – Leaving The Fifth Dimension
Girvan is a seaside town in Carrick, South Ayrshire. It has 8000 inhabitants and is the biggest community between Ayr and Stranraer, straddling the main
READ FULL STORY‘I called…and enquired whether I could assist in any way…’
The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic has rekindled memories of two Shetlanders who were involved in the tragedy, writes Jim Tait Scalloway
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By the time you read this we may well have endured another of those cold, dismal Junes which give Shetland summers a bad name. But
READ FULL STORYCrofters to be briefed on windfarm development scheme
Viking Energy is to hold a series of briefing sessions for crofters in the Central Mainland as preparations for its 103-turbine windfarm get underway.
READ FULL STORYNo going back on speed of cuts, warns new SIC political leader
Shetland Islands Council’s new political leader Gary Robinson has warned that he believes there must be no going back on the planned pace of spending
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