Times Past
Shetland’s posties have been literally run off their feet this Christmas, with the Post Office reporting a five per cent increase over last year in
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Times Past
The chairman of the SIC’s new development sub-committee came back to the full council this week and complained that the spending powers he had been
READ FULL STORYLetter from Edinburgh
You wouldn’t believe the size of the pile of Amazon and Play.com boxes in the Lerwick Post Office. Actually you would. I guess it’s a
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Purse net skippers rebelled this week against regulations which stop them landing herring and mackerel to be made into fishmeal.
READ FULL STORYAlthing voters are heavily against Tesco
The hall at Tingwall School was not as full as on previous occasions for the latest debate from the Althing Social Group on Saturday night.
READ FULL STORYShetland Life: Editorial
Last month, the coalition government in Westminster announced plans to begin measuring the level of happiness among citizens. The standard gauge of the country’s success
READ FULL STORYChristmas: Deck the halls…
Marsali Taylor examines some of the Christmas traditions that we now take for granted, and finds that many of them are more recent than we
READ FULL STORYPeople: An Antarctic explorer in Unst
Mark Wilson records a visit to the Baltasound Hotel this summer, a century after the arrival of a very famous relative.
READ FULL STORYNelson’s Column
Here I am, still in Glasgow, ensconced in the cut and thrust of rehearsals for Sleeping Beauty, this years panto at Glasgow’s Oran Mor. While
READ FULL STORYPoint Blank
It was with a wry smile that I read BT’s junk mail circular stuck through my letterbox last week, emblazoned with the question, “Does your
READ FULL STORYPast Times: The Old Rock
The year of the Royal visit, the year of the Hamefarin, the year of the fine weather… 1960 has been a memorable year indeed.
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Wid you believe it? Santie’s elves hiv been in Shetland dis mont, a top secret veesit. Whit a sook in I got when dey turned
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Shetland Similes
Over the years much has been written and, of late, much encouragement given to the use of the Shetland dialect. We have Shetland verse and
READ FULL STORYLetter from Edinburgh
Apart from the de-icer boom falling on a plane at Sumburgh at the beginning of the week, our airport has done a good job keeping
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