Times Past
O.I.L. (Shetland) Ltd is to announce “at least” 14 redundancies on Monday as a result of the North Sea oil slump.
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Shetland Life: Editorial
“I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists”, declared the BBC’s Andrew Marr last month, as he admitted finally that gagging
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The hype around the band may have faded, but Chris Cope finds Oscar Charlie more confident and more hopeful than ever.
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Playing political games with Canada’s North It is election time again in Canada, which means a whole lot of vague spending platforms, photo ops in
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When the massive earthquake hit Japan in March, former Shetland Life columnist Emily MacFarlane was working in Sendai, close to the epicentre. Here, she describes
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Ok, let me declare my interest straight off the bat – on May 5th, along with my Holyrood parliamentary votes, I will be voting YES
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Off on the Dunera
Proud parents waved and the brass band played on Saturday morning as launches ferried 134 excited Shetland children to the educational cruise ship Dunera, which
READ FULL STORYPast Life: News from the Cats Protection League
At the beginning of this year, the group’s morale was boosted when a lady offered to run a small cat shelter for us on her
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I am not sure that I would yet make the claim that the Scottish Parliament election campaign has set the heather ablaze but there is
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25 Years Ago The slump in North Sea oil prices hit the SIC with a vengeance this week. With the council standing to lose between
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Shetland Islands Council has turned down a planning application – from Shetland Islands Council! The proposal to carry out earthworks next to the Clickimin sports
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Sad news reached me last week from the other side of the Atlantic when I learned of the death of my friend Virginia Davis.
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25 Years Ago The SIC and Shetland Arts Trust came to blows over finance during a meeting of the leisure and recreation committee last Thursday.
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Knocking on doors for the Scottish election, the subject of the coalition at Westminster is one which crops up quite a bit.
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