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Three bailed after drug arrests

Friday, 27 January 2012

TWO men and a woman have been released on bail after appearing in Lerwick Sheriff Court facing charges following a series of drug raids by local police.

Officers entered houses in Lerwick and Shetland’s south mainland on Thursday and say they recovered quantities of suspected heroin, cocaine, cannabis, valium and illegally prescribed prescription drugs.

On Friday one man and a woman appeared in private from custody before honorary sheriff Eric Peterson.

Sarah Gibson, aged 22, of...

SIC cash helps turbine and net cleaning firm

Friday, 27 January 2012

A MEDIUM sized wind turbine and an innovative fish farm net cleaning system have received a hefty cash injection from Shetland Islands Council.

Former councillor and Crofters Commission chairman Drew Ratter has won a...

No cash, but SIC commits to tunnels

Friday, 27 January 2012

SHETLAND Islands Council is to start the hunt for more than £100 million to build tunnels to the islands of Bressay and Whalsay.

Councillors are backing a plan to set up a meeting with the European Commission to see if...

Hacktivist Jake

Friday, 27 January 2012

SHETLAND teenager Jake Davis accused of hacking into websites under the pseudonym ‘Topiary’ has had his trial delayed until 11 May.Davis was due to enter...

Mackerel talks break down again

Friday, 27 January 2012

SCOTTISH fishermen are calling for tough sanctions to now be imposed on Iceland and Faroe after negotiations on this year’s valuable mackerel quota...

No more PO closures

Friday, 27 January 2012

NO RURAL post offices will close for the next decade, according to northern isles MP Alistair Carmichael.The MP said a new 10 year...

Police car damaged

Grant for local hall

Carbon coaching

Tavish urges restoration of ADS

Hrossey leaves early

Planning for Bermuda

Unions condemn SIC savings plans

Thursday, 26 January 2012

SHETLAND Islands Council are proposing to slash almost £30 million from its annual budget over the next two years, cutting services and making staff redundant.

Unions have condemned the plans as cutting too far and too fast,...

Blueshell Mussels fined over record keeping

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

AN AWARD-winning Shetland shellfish growing business that produces 60 per cent of Scotland’s farmed mussels was fined £1,750 at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday for minor faults in its record keeping.

The court heard that the deficiencies...

Doing a ton on the Tingwall straight

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

A BRAE woman has been banned from driving for nine months after police followed her at 100mph along the islands' main trunk road.

Lerwick Sheriff Court heard that unemployed 22 year old mother Sheryl Lyn Odie, of...

Young drug smuggler faces jail

Wednesday, 25 January 2012

A YOUNG Shetland woman faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to smuggling heroin worth more than £4,000 into the islands, when she appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

Twenty year old Mhairi-Claire Rose Stewart, of...