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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

SHETLAND’s new police chief is settling into his job in Lerwick – with his overarching priority being to keep people safe. Chief inspector Chris Sewell took up the area commander post in September ...

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 ...

SPACE company Orbex has confirmed it is shifting its launch operations to SaxaVord in Unst – putting a proposed spaceport in Sutherland on pause. The decision enables the company to direct more ...

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