Shetland Life: Editorial
Cars. I can’t resist them. Well, to be specific, old cars. There’s just something about the risk, the hope, the belief that this one
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In the belly of the beast
“If you don’t have steel toe caps, I’ve got spare boots,” says the genial Richard Wemyss, Shetland Arts’ Head of Operations for Mareel. This is
READ FULL STORYComing home
Dave Clark, former Council Chief Executive, remembers what it felt like to return to his boyhood home. The aircraft looked so tiny, parked there on
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Robert Rodriguez made his first movie, El Mariachi, for $4000, some of which he raised by letting drug companies use him as a guinea pig.
READ FULL STORYLights, camera, action… reestit mutton!
We’re lucky to live in a place that’s seen as a bit different. From a film point of view, it means that visitors brought their
READ FULL STORYThe Garden in February
A miracle, assisted by some sturdy rope, is responsible for one of the tallest trees at Lea Gardens to remain upright after 2011’s Christmas day
READ FULL STORYOfficial: 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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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
READ FULL STORY“My dad does typing, I think. He’s a general secretary.”
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
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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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