Shetland Life: Editorial
In the run up to the Scottish election last month, each and every candidate standing in the islands identified the price of fuel as one
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Past Times: New ice plant ready for production
This week-end Messrs J. & M. Shearer Ltd., of Lerwick, hope to be in a position to meet orders for the highly successful new flake
READ FULL STORYPast Life: A right to work?
It is not surprising that the consequences of what is in effect a new industrial revolution are ignored, even by some of its immediate victims.
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“I did not come into journalism to go around gagging journalists”, declared the BBC’s Andrew Marr last month, as he admitted finally that gagging
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Off on the Dunera
Proud parents waved and the brass band played on Saturday morning as launches ferried 134 excited Shetland children to the educational cruise ship Dunera, which
READ FULL STORYPast Life: News from the Cats Protection League
At the beginning of this year, the group’s morale was boosted when a lady offered to run a small cat shelter for us on her
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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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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
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Education yesterday
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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In January 1813, 17 men were sentenced to death in York for the crime of “frame breaking”. Others were sent to Australia for the same
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Foula relieved on 77th day
The skilled seamanship of Skipper James Fullerton, the initiative of the Scottish Daily Express and the rapid organisation of the chief constable, Mr Robert Bruce,
READ FULL STORYPast Life: A Shetlander who clothed the British Army
Ninety-five years ago, in December 1890, there died a Shetlander who rose to be one of the most important contractors, supplying clothing to the British
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The world has a problem. As the population of the planet rapidly increases – to an estimated nine billion by the middle of this century
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Heddell’s Park – top award
Local people were delighted at the weekend when it became known that, for the first time since their annual awards were started in 1937, the
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