Times Past
25 Years Ago The uncertainty over the Old Gilbert Bain Hospital’s future deepened this week after a big display of public opposition to plans to
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Letter from Westminster
I am by nature an optimist. I tend to believe that if the will exists then all things are possible. Even I, however, am forced
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It would be a strange person indeed whose sense of perspective has not been changed, even temporarily, by recent events around the world. To see
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Marsali Taylor finds ordinary people coping with extraordinary difficulties when she meets members of the support group Families Affected By alcohol and drugs.
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Like the entire Northwest Territories, Fort Smith is known for wildlife. For years people from around the world have been travelling to the north to
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Wendy Dickson looks back on some of the ups and downs of her years as a tourist guide, in Shetland and beyond.
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Tickets. It’s an ebullient word in Shetland at the moment. If you got yours for Mumford and Sons, Bill Bailey, The Levellers, Bjorn Again or
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THOSE who wish to keep their last year’s banks must mark each end with their name by the 3rd May, after which all unmarked banks
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Computers, language laboratories, calculators, television, Munn and Dunning – all these and much more are common-place in our classrooms today. We’ve certainly come a long
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A few weeks ago I found myself on stage in a stand up club once again having to employ the “invisible lasso.” That’s when your
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Oil companies have been asked to give an undertaking that they will deal with any major spills and pay for cleaning up operations.
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Wednesday last week was budget day. The budget is no longer the jewel in the parliamentary calendar that it used to be but it is
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Lerwick Harbour Trust still wants to demolish the controversial wooden walkway at Albert Buildings on the Esplanade but trustees will have to get planning permission
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Parliament finished its third session on Tuesday and the party leaders signed a motion of thanks to departing presiding officer Alex Fergusson.
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