By RYAN TAYLOR Agriculture in rural areas should receive greater support to help address the growing global demand for food anticipated by the middle of…
READ FULL STORYThe monthly Althing debate was held in Tingwall Primary School at 7.30 pm on a wet and windy Saturday in February. No one was arrested….
READ FULL STORYBy MAREE HAY Although last Friday dawned wet and windy, the weather did nothing to dampen the spirits of Northmavine Up-Helly-A’ Guizer Jarl Ivan Goodlad,…
READ FULL STORYJONATHAN WILLS was Labour’s parliamentary candidate at both the 1974 general elections. Here he assesses the meaning of the memos and reports that flew between…
READ FULL STORYBy LAURA FRIEDLANDER The Althing debate on the question of whether “Too Much is Spent on the Arts in Shetland” attracted a full house on…
READ FULL STORY“When you got in the park, once Davie and Jim got out of the galley, and I’m the only one standing in there, the lonesome…
READ FULL STORYIf you didn’t know there was something special going on in Lerwick on Tuesday morning the traffic-stopping crowds would have alerted you. People gathered outside…
READ FULL STORY“The best day of my life.” That was how junior Jarl Kristoffer Thomason described his day of glory on Tuesday, a day of leading his…
READ FULL STORYBetty, the Jarl’s mam, has got style, stepping from the Town Hall into a waiting two-seater sports car. The only thing missing was the red…
READ FULL STORYA trademark assortment of guizers descended on the old town for Tuesday night’s impressive-as-ever procession in greater numbers than the streets of Lerwick have seen…
READ FULL STORYMost people have probably never seen Michael Jackson take part in a Boston Two-Step, but at least Up-Helly-A’ revellers can now truthfully claim to have…
READ FULL STORY1. Othere Fra Hålogaland: The Jarl’s Squad (57) 2. Trucking Great Night (25) This musical squad entered the halls looking like true truckers wearing bibs…
READ FULL STORYFor the past few weeks Lerwick’s streets have been brightened up by the annual Up-Helly-A’ window display competition. Jarl Stephen Mouat and his wife Morag…
READ FULL STORYBy RYAN TAYLOR When surgeon Harald Veen worked at the Gilbert Bain Hospital in Lerwick, he could not have imagined the horrors he would face…
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