Official: Shetland bumpier (and much bigger) than Orkney!
Outdoors tourism in Shetland takes many forms – some people come for the ornithology, the whale watching or the coastal scenery. Others come to see
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Shetland Life Editorial: Goodbye to all that
I’ll miss the Chief Executive’s office. For the last 12 months or so I’ve been helping out the Council as ‘communications consultant’, and I’ve had
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Shetlander Ronnie Smith has announced his retirement as Scotland’s head of all teachers, the General Secretary of the union the Education Institute of Scotland. Chris
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READ FULL STORYWir Shop: Shoard, Whalsay
Among charity shops, it is a legend. It is the motherlode, the Aladdin’s Cave, a treasury of delights for those of us who love to
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Many languages have two ways of saying you – a familiar one and a formal, polite one. In French we find tu (familiar) and vous
READ FULL STORYShetland Life Editorial: Shetland knows how to celebrate.
In winter, there’s a natural tendency to ‘coorie in’, to nestle around the stove and huddle together against the darkness and raging storms outside. But
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Council convener Sandy Cluness says the opportunity for more local control should be grasped.
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“So, Clive, what’s your Top 10 albums of all time ?” No-one’s asked me that in a long time but when Tom asked me about
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READ FULL STORYPast Times: Highlights of 1961
Shetland Chamber of Commerce considered the time ripe for the re-opening of the question of protecting the name “Shetland” in connection with the local woollen
READ FULL STORYPast Life: A Year of Mixed Fortunes
1986 will soon be over. It has been a year of mixed fortunes for Shetland culminating in the terrible tragedy near Sumburgh when 45
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The TV licence detector squad’s recent campaign in Shetland has prompted a sudden rush of work in the main Lerwick post office, with up to
READ FULL STORYLetter from Westminster
For the first nine years that I was in Parliament autumn statement and budget days were routinely an excuse for me and my colleagues from
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