Having assumed that all the surviving papers of the Reverend Kenneth Speckle B.D.Edin (failed), 1747-18??, had been located ...

NHS Shetland’s cardiac nurse specialist Marie Hurson has been highly commended at a national awards ceremony. Hurson was nominated in the clinical leadership prize at the RCN Scotland Nurse of the ...

A MEMORY bank bringing together new and lost stories from Scottish whalers and their adventures to South Georgia Island is set to be unveiled next week. The South Georgia Heritage Trust and South ...

THE SCOTTISH Government has reiterated that there are no plans to reintroduce business travel to the air discount scheme (ADS ...

Recent estimates suggested the road would be closed between late June and November. Local councillor Andrew Hall relayed concerns at a meeting of Shetland’s community safety and resilience board this ...

Statkraft said it was too early to go into any detail as to what a PPA could look like. However the spokesperson said the company has a “leading trading and optimisation team based in the UK, so we’re ...

A WEEK of international yacht activity in Lerwick Harbour is underway after the arrival of Dutch boats taking part in the North Sea Triangle event. The yachts began to arrive on Monday, sailing at ...

PLANS to introduce zonal energy pricing, which could have resulted in cheaper bills for places with higher electricity supply ...

WATER from the Burn of Sound will make its way to Orkney tonight (Friday) to be used in the opening ceremony of tomorrow’s ...

PEOPLE are putting themselves and puffins at serious risk by climbing walls at Sumburgh to take nature pictures, an RSPB ...

THE IDEA of tunnels to Yell, Unst, Bressay and Whalsay are to be taken forward by Shetland Islands Council (SIC) for further consideration. However a push by North Isles councillor Robert Thomson for ...

Over the last four decades Wills regularly turned to the fictitious Reverend Kenneth Speckle, who had been banished to the isolated parish of Breezey, to comment on current affairs from two centuries ...