JUNIOR inter-county captain Layla Todd had the perfect warm-up for this weekend’s event after shattering another longstanding Shetland athletics record. Just a month after setting a new 5K record for ...

TWO long-serving volunteers have been rewarded for their many years of service to the community by receiving British Empire Medals today (Monday). Kathleen Stout, who is a lunch club volunteer with ...

THE VALUE of ‘bad debt’ from the last financial year being written off by Shetland Islands Council (SIC) has increased to nearly £280,000. However this was only 0.27 per cent of the £101.52 million ...

MORE THAN £30,000 has been raised in Shetland over the last two years towards helping to alleviate the human suffering in Gaza. Calling for peace and justice and for an immediate ceasefire to stop ...

THE PRINCIPAL and CEO of UHI Shetland has added her name to a letter sent to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer urging the government to invest in colleges. The letter has been signed by college ...

THE COUNTDOWN is on until this year’s junior inter-county, which Shetland are set to host next weekend. Nearly 100 young athletes will compete across athletics, football, hockey, swimming and netball ...

THE NUMBER of council house applications in Shetland has decreased over recent years – but the average length of time to re-let properties has gone up. Figures presented to a meeting of Shetland ...

A NEW book memorialising Shetlanders’ Covid experience has been launched. It is part of the Remembering Together project, a national scheme administered locally by Shetland Arts. The books will be ...

NEARLY 1,100 food parcels have been distributed in Shetland over the last year, Shetland Foodbank manager David Grieve has said. A fifth of those were given to families, with almost 1,600 people in ...

THE AGREEMENT to ‘reset’ relationships with the EU has been defended as a “reasonably good deal for the UK fishing sector” by ...

DISMISSED as inferior and portrayed as ‘slang English’ for hundreds of years, Shetland’s native tongue has finally been confirmed as a language and is already being used as a case study in university ...

A MAN has been placed under supervision for one year and given 80 hours of unpaid work to complete for his “atrocious behaviour” towards police last year. Thomas Drever previously admitted behaving in ...