News / Teenager falls from Lerwick balcony
A SIXTEEN year old was rushed to hospital in the early hours of Sunday morning after he fell from a second floor balcony at a house in Upper Sound, Lerwick.
Police said that the teenager escaped with minor cuts and bruises and kept in hospital overnight for observation.
A 19 year old woman was also taken to hospital in the early hours of Sunday after concerns were raised about her state of drunkenness at Lerwick’s Knab Road.
In the early hours of Saturday police served a fixed penalty on a 21 year old man for anti social behaviour after an ongoing disturbance at a house in Grostane, Lerwick.
Two fixed penalties were served on men aged 20 and 24 for urinating in a public place in Lerwick on Saturday, one in the early hours on Commercial Street, the other at midnight on Commercial Road.
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