Past Times: “Back to Norway?” asks peer
Suppose Norway wanted Orkney and Shetland back? Lord Saltoun, Laird of Fraserburgh, asked the House of Lords on Tuesday when all parties welcomed the Highlands
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Past Life: Hamar House, Baltasound
Walls have ears and if only stones could speak what stories they could tell. When I go round old houses, whether they are ruinous,
READ FULL STORYShetland Life: Editorial March 2010
It would be nice if there were something else to write about this month – some positive, inspiring story, from which we could all take
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I have begun going through the newspapers here in Cumberland for the period 1812-1912, extracting various materials, including any relating to Orkney and Shetland, especially
READ FULL STORYPast Times: One school for Ness area?
A school inspector has suggested to Shetland Education Committee that they should consider combining Virkie/Quendale/Boddam schools into one new three-teacher school, sited probably at Virkie.
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It was reported last week that close to £200,000 worth of Class A drugs had been seized by police in Shetland during 2008/2009. This was
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Up-Helly-A’
I’ve never seen Up-Helly-A’. The name is strange, outlandish – For who could take time off In the middle of a busy life? Such a
READ FULL STORYPast Times: The new St. Clair
This is an artist’s impression of the North of Scotland Shipping Company’s new motor ship St. Clair. The building of the ship is progressing very
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At the end of any year there will be things you wish to remember and things you would prefer to forget. Looking back over 2009,
READ FULL STORYPast Times: WANTED – A town clerk with “suitable qualifications”
From The Shetland Times, Friday 15th January, 1960 Lerwick Town Council are to advertise for a “town clerk with suitable qualifications” to succeed Mr Thomas
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Editorial Comment – The Year That’s Gone
From Shetland Life, January 1985, No. 51 While many people will be glad to see the back of 1984 it was, on the whole, a
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It would hardly be controversial to suggest that there is something of a crisis in Shetland politics today. At the time of the last elections,
READ FULL STORYPast Life: Frobisher’s Shetland Hansel
It is not generally known that Sir Martin Frobisher, that grand seaman and explorer, on his first voyage in search of new seas and lands
READ FULL STORYPast Times: Wives should be paid a weekly wage!
At a recent meeting of the Burravoe Literary and Debating Society the motion before the house was “That housewives should be paid a weekly wage
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