Past Life: A Boy Scout’s Wartime Diary
September 1914 and William Johnson’s diary records the stranding of the ss Oceanic at Foula, the loss of three British cruisers and, nearer home,
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Shetland Life: Editorial
For me, the most depressing thing about the growth of Tesco in Shetland is not the threat the company poses to local businesses, to consumer
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Britannia rules the waves
If the Queen lands on Fair Isle on her way north to Lerwick, she will be the first member of the Royal Family to do
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Bye bye from him
This is my last Media Matters column. The reason for this is simple. As from August (this is written in July) the Shetland Islands Broadcasting
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Feuars and Heritors hand out over £300
Is it worthwhile continuing a free reading room in the county library headquarters? There was a divergence of opinion at the annual meeting of the
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Jean Jack
When I was a child, listening to the Foula folk counting kin, one name that often cropped up was that of Jean Jack. It seemed
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It seems that after years of hesitation the council may finally be pressing ahead with school closures in the islands.
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This month, hundreds of Shetlanders and Shetland families from across the world will be arriving in the islands to take part in the Hamefarin celebrations,
READ FULL STORYPast Life: A letter from the past
Huxter, 23rd March, 1864. My Dear Cousin, I write you these few lines to let you know that we are all in our usual good
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THREE B.B.C. T.V. experts arrived for Hamefarin – but without any equipment. They just wanted “to have a look at it so we can do
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As though the havoc wreaked by the Eyjafjallajökull volcano last month were not enough to convince us, two more disastrous events have since unfolded that
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Shetland is now on TV station list
Many Shetlanders have welcomed the announcement by the Postmaster-general that he has approved, in principle, the second stage of the B.B.C.’s plans for extending and
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For the second time in 25 years Shetland is celebrating the return of “exiles” from many parts of the world. For all of them it
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Late last month, the Scottish government’s chief scientist, Professor Anne Glover, was in Shetland to discuss the threat of global warming and the efforts to
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