Meanwhile a Bristow representative says it was a ‘difficult decision’ for the company to end the festive flight ...

FIRE festival fever has reached Unst as the Uyeasound Up Helly Aa gets underway. This year’s guizer jarl is Duncan Scott, who ...

NHS Shetland is applying for planning permission to change the use of the former St Olaf Street dentists in Lerwick in a bid ...

IT HAS put smiles on the faces of many over the recent years, but the coastguard helicopter’s annual festive fly-over across ...

COUNCILLORS have approved an application to extend the temporary planning permission of the Sella Ness accommodation facility ...

SHETLAND Islands Council could order a new ferry to add much needed resilience to its aging fleet. The council has been on ...

EDITH Beattie celebrated her 100th birthday today (Thursday) with a visit from Lord Lieutenant Lindsay Tulloch and a birthday ...

In Shetland the focus is on eight of these species: curlew, lapwing, twite, red-necked phalarope, oyster plant, endemic ...

SHETLAND’S referees would have struggled to do another season in a two league format, football association president Jakob ...

AT LEAST £100,000 is set to be shared between three local charities as an intrepid fundraiser prepares to travel on foot from ...

ARCHAEOLOGISTS have spent the last week excavating one of Shetland’s most challenging sites at the Kame of Isbister near North Roe. The Kame is a rocky headland 38 metres high only accessible by ropes ...

CONSTRUCTION giant Petrofac has accepted responsibility for the 15 month delay in building the £800 million Shetland Gas Plant after unions attacked them for trying to shift the blame onto workers.