MANY thousands of people tuned into the Up Helly Aa live online broadcast on Tuesday night, new statistics show. The ...

FREIGHT distribution company Menzies has announced it is pulling out of Shetland and Orkney at the end of this month. In a letter to customers, it said all of its transport activity and warehouse ...

LERWICK Town Hall is flying the council flag at half-mast to mark the passing of former councillor Geoff Feather whose funeral is taking place today (Monday). He was elected to represent the ward of ...

A PROPOSED £10 million funding boost from the Scottish Government for inter-island connectivity looks likely to be used to ...

NHS SHETLAND has vowed to work with Lerwick Dental Practice to allow new NHS dentists to be registered with the practice. It ...

Campaign groups Sustainable Shetland and Save Shetland – both who oppose new wind farm developments in the isles – are among ...

NORTHLINK staff and crew came together recently to mark the retirement of long-serving engineer Billy Edwards. He has worked ...

THE UK Government will have to reconsider its approval for the Rosebank oil and gas field 80 miles northwest of Shetland to ...

THE SUMBURGH based Sikorsky S-92 search and rescue helicopters have just completed their 1,000 th mission since Bristow Helicopters took over the coastguard search and rescue contract from Canadian ...

GUIZER jarl Peter Hunter (AKA Rognvald Eysteinsson) is heading the Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa celebrations today (Friday) with his squad of 24 merry men and five bairns. Peter’s character, also ...

A BRAE fish and chip shop has been named as one of the best in Britain by Time Out magazine. Frankie's Fish and Chips was one of three Scottish entries on ...

THE COUNCIL’S roads department has disputed the results of a parking study carried out on behalf of UHI Shetland around its ...