After resigning as a councillor at the end of October, Tom Morton reflects on his two and a half years in the role in which ...

ULTRA marathon runner James Anderson finished in the top 10 of a top 50km race through Scotland this weekend.  Anderson set a ...

MAREEL’S café bar is to be closed three days a week as Shetland Arts continues to struggle with staff shortages.  The venue ...

AN ONLINE auction created by a group of local volunteers has raised an impressive £14,700 for the Viking Genes research project. Bids could be placed on more than 240 lots on Facebook over the weekend ...

THE REBUILD of the Fair Isle Bird Observatory is to benefit from UK Government funding worth £550,000. The money is coming from the government’s Community Ownership Fund. It is the second time in a ...

LERWICK Brewery is aiming to increase its UK mainland sales by 500 per cent over the next three years, with major ...

A POPPY display is taking pride of place in Brae ahead of remembrance Sunday. The Brae Makkin and Yakkin group, helped by ...

THE CHAIRMAN of Lerwick Community Council has questioned if it would be more cost effective to try to demolish the Janet Courtney hostel at the former Anderson High School and construct a new build ...

SHETLAND Library is celebrating after scooping a national award. It won the library service excellence prize at the SLIC ...

A LOCAL historian is to give a talk marking the centenary of the burial of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the lives of the six Shetland pallbearers. Shetland Museum and Archives will kick off its Year of ...

GERMAN rocket company RFA is hoping to get back on the launch pad in the SaxaVord Spaceport in Unst “as soon as possible”. It ...

A WHALSAY family fishing partnership has just taken delivery of a new pelagic trawler which replaces another of the same name. The new Adenia tackled some harsh weather on her passage from Astilleros ...