Letter from Westminster
One of the changes that this government has made to parliament which does not get a great deal of attention outside of Westminster has been
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Times Past
25 Years Ago The Firth construction camp could close next year. As work continued on demolishing a part of the oilworkers’ camp this week, BP
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A sad farewell It is strange to think of the Street without Clive’s Record Shop. It is strange to think that such a significant part
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Clive’s Record Shop has been a central part of Shetland’s musical life for the past three decades, but now all that is coming to an
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A new collection of poetry from Scotland’s islands has just been launched, and many of Shetland’s best writers are included in the book. Jordan Ogg
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Malachy Tallack meets singer-songwriter Donald Anderson to discuss his new album, In Passing. It is difficult to know how to introduce In Passing. Is this
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From The Shetland Times, Friday 13th October, 1961 Thanks to pubic opinion there will be no commercial bingo played in the Planets Ballroom this winter
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From Shetland Life, October 1986, No.72 Having visited Foula every year since 1971 to ring and study seabirds, I was recently quite surprised to receive
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25 Years Ago At least 26 more jobs are to go at the OIL supply base at Greenhead, Lerwick, bringing the total redundancies to 54
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Early last week Jonathan Wills posed the question (in a fair and measured way) of how I could remain a minister in the coalition government
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Every year around this time MPs find themselves in the busy and slightly surreal environment that is the party conference.
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The SIC has come a step nearer to breaking the deadlock in its battle with the North Isles ferry crews. It seems that despite some
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British Telecom say that they have no intention of a last minute reprieve for the Lerwick telephone exchange which is due for closure in March
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This week parliament debated the economy. Or rather what any government can do about global recession, the state of Greece and the lasting impact banking
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