THE VIKING wind farm ranked third for the highest amount of energy going unused in the UK in 2024 – despite only opening in ...

TWO LOCAL community councils are at the early stages of exploring how they could take a share in the proposed Mossy Hill wind ...

CONSTRUCTION on the long-awaited 3G football and rugby pitch in Lerwick is set to now start in February. Work had been ...

SHETLAND Arts chief executive Graeme Howell says a potential funding boost from Creative Scotland would “greatly enhance” the ...

LERWICK Community Council is to object to plans to build a 132kV substation to connect to the proposed eight-turbine Mossy ...

KING HARALD Street in Lerwick has been described as “incredibly dangerous” for young children to cross. That view has come ...

A SHETLAND charity has donated £15,000 to buy 15 specialist mattresses for NHS Shetland patients. Cancer Shetland, which was ...

AN ORKNEY ferry company which previously floated the idea of sailings between Caithness and Shetland says it is not considering introducing trips to the isles in peak periods. Pentland Ferries’ ...

A LERWICK postmaster has been elected to the board of Post Office Ltd as a non-executive director. Brian Smith, who runs the Freefield post office and Clocktower shop within the Toll Clock Shopping ...

A LOCAL doctor who heads up Shetland’s only remaining independent medical practice says it is now more than a year that a vacancy for an associate GP has remained unfilled. It comes as the chair of ...

SHETLANDERS have overwhelmingly Scottish DNA according to a major research project; one of whose contributors is well-known Orkney geneticist Professor Jim Wilson. While Shetland is famed for its ...

THE CHIEF executive of Loganair Jonathan Hinkles has stepped down from his post with immediate effect. The unexpected move coincided with yesterday’s (Thursday) announcement of the retirement of the ...