Spaekalation
No doubt there are one or two of my friends who think I should have been despatched to a place like that long ago –
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Spaekalation
The thing would appear to be: Britain finds it very difficult to change. Countries can change – witness Germany and Japan. These were the most
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 22.07.11
News that the go-ahead has been given for proposed pharmacies in Levenwick and Brae, within the existing health centres there, is to be welcomed. It
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 15.07.11
When the goverment announced last December that it intended to close either Lerwick or Stornoway coastguard station and keep the survivor open during daylight only
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Goliath’s gaze is one of the most impressive features of Shetland’s museum. His stone head as furrowed as a fist, he stares out of a
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 08.07.11
When those councillors who voted in December to approve Viking Energy’s planning application to the government’s energy consents unit, they put themselves at risk of
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Looking around this sorry planet, it is not hard to see that there is one major cause for almost all of our wars and conflicts.
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 01.07.11
Shetland’s sportsmen and women, and the swimmers in particular, have made most islanders proud with their performances this week at the NatWest Island Games in
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Since it came to office last year, the Tory-Lib Dem coalition at Westminster has been pushing up against one seemingly unexpected – and some might
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 24.06.11
To get a measure of the scathing language in the report published this week by the House of Commons transport committee into the government’s coastguard
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 17.06.11
Where does the balance lie between cuts that are proposed as a result of the inevitable reduction in revenue support and capital grants from the
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 10.06.11
When the headquarters of Scottish Natural Heritage was moved from Edinburgh to Inverness in 2003, there was opposition from staff (many of whom refused to
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 03.06.11
No-one who has had to confront Scottish government policy on school closures is likely to be anything other than pleased by the education minister’s announcement
READ FULL STORYEditorial: The Old Rock 27.05.11
Mercifully, the disruption to air travel as a result of the latest eruption in Iceland, this time of the Grimsvötn volcano, was restricted to just
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