Farcical award (Ian Selbie)
At one point you were made a “sir” after defending the monarch/princes on the battlefield but it’s all gone downhill.
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Disadvantage of the isles (Laurence Odie)
Yet another SIC councillor is quoted as being more concerned about the travel costs from the West Side or the North Mainland as they are
READ FULL STORYGrim future (George Smith)
Brian Smith and his union colleagues are absolutely right in their assertion that Shetland may be heading for economic and social catastrophe. Let no-one for
READ FULL STORYPractical suggestions please (Jonathan Wills)
I’m glad Andy Holt (Readers’ Views) belatedly agrees with me about Mareel, but sad that he then accuses me of cheap political trickery over the
READ FULL STORYGo decimal, at last (John Scholtz)
It strikes me as rather silly, some would call it the height of craziness, that a small country like Britain still pours its milk into
READ FULL STORYTravesty at St Ninian’s (Paul Meyer)
I fully agree with Jeff Merrifield’s horror (Readers’ Views, 7th June) when surrounded and affronted by noisy quad machines charging up and down St Ninian’s
READ FULL STORYStunned at decision (Vivienne Rendall)
I cannot have been the only person to have read with stunned disbelief and amazement the headline in The Shetland Times that the SIC is
READ FULL STORYIt isn’t about money (Mike Russell)
The Scottish government passed legislation in 2010 to ensure that where a local authority was proposing to close a school in a rural area, that
READ FULL STORYSpoiling the attraction (Jeff Merrifield)
Shetland Jazz Club brings a lot of top jazz musicians to the islands and many of them stay with me in Sandwick.
READ FULL STORYThose pesky mosquitos (Matthew Laurence)
It was a glorious day on Sunday 5th June and as I sat in my newly-erected polytunnel, enclosed in the warmth, tending to my seedlings,
READ FULL STORYCheap trick (Andy Holt)
Jonathan Wills accuses those of us who wish to resist the closure of rural schools of being “romantics” who are looking to have their “expensive
READ FULL STORYIndustrial waste site (Kathy Greaves)
It seems clear that councillors, collectively, do not intend to support the Shetland public’s democratic right to a referendum on Viking Energy’s giant windfarm.
READ FULL STORYSupport for call-in (Derek and Cheryl Jamieson)
Thanks to all who have requested a government call-in to examine the council decision to close Uyeasound Primary School.
READ FULL STORYWe can’t afford these small schools (Jonathan Wills)
Okay, here’s the message in seven words: “We can’t afford all these small schools.”
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