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Lerwick Harbour Trust still wants to demolish the controversial wooden walkway at Albert Buildings on the Esplanade but trustees will have to get planning permission
READ FULL STORYLerwick Harbour Trust still wants to demolish the controversial wooden walkway at Albert Buildings on the Esplanade but trustees will have to get planning permission
READ FULL STORYTwo youths have been charged in connection with the theft of the model clipper Matchless from the Shetland Museum last month.
READ FULL STORYA threat to evict BP from council-owned land at Sullom Voe has failed to bring the oil industry back to the negotiating table over the
READ FULL STORY“There’s nothing to match it” – that’s Charles Fordyce’s comment on Shetland’s newest nightspot, “Nightmagic”.
READ FULL STORYA Shetland woman, who is watching with keen interest events in Haiti, is Mrs Martha Goodlad, of the Cutts, Trondra.
READ FULL STORYThere were signs this week that Lord Lyon, the heraldic official who regulates the use of flags, banners and standards in Scotland, may have found
READ FULL STORYFish processors in Shetland have been warned that they could lose council financial help if their products do not come up to standards set by
READ FULL STORYThe legendary Shetland scholar Laurence Leask Johnson, who died last month, has left his entire collection of more than 2000 books to the library –
READ FULL STORYRepair work on SIC Cruden houses has increased their value eight or nine times, councillors were told on Monday, but there is nothing the council
READ FULL STORYShetland Islands Council has committed itself to fighting against the proposed nuclear fuel processing plant at Dounreay and hopes to see the three islands councils
READ FULL STORYShetland had a white New Year and a fairly quiet one. Snow and ice kept most folk off the roads and the going on foot
READ FULL STORYShetland’s posties have been literally run off their feet this Christmas, with the Post Office reporting a five per cent increase over last year in
READ FULL STORYThe chairman of the SIC’s new development sub-committee came back to the full council this week and complained that the spending powers he had been
READ FULL STORYPurse net skippers rebelled this week against regulations which stop them landing herring and mackerel to be made into fishmeal.
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