Also in the news / One hundred years old, jazz award, name change and more…
AITHSETTER resident Joan Adamson has celebrated her 100th birthday with family and a card from the King and Queen.
Adamson, known to many as ‘Joey’, was born in Aithsetter on 7 December 1925 and has lived most of her life there.
She is mother to seven boys, six of whom still live nearby in Shetland and who were present at celebrations on Sunday alongside vice for lieutenant Iain Tulloch.
The Adamson family are well connected to the Shetland Aid Trust, which has delivered aid and supplies to Eastern Europe for over 30 years. Sadly, one of Joan’s sons, Peter, died in a tragic accident in Albania in 1994 during one of the aid trips.
Joan’s late husband, Andy, worked at the fishing for a few years before starting work for the county roads department. He eventually rose to become senior roads foreman for the south of Shetland.
In that capacity, he laid claim to drive the first car across the Trondra Bridge when it opened in 1971. Andy died after a short illness in 1994.
Joan has 16 grandchildren and 29 great-grandchildren, many of whom live locally.
LOCAL musician Norman Willmore has picked up a prize at this year’s Scottish Jazz Awards.
He won the Critics’ Choice award for his collaboration with drummer Corrie Dick.
Now back living in Shetland, Willmore has a number of upcoming gigs including performing at Ragged Wood’s Yule Gadderie at Mareel on 20 December, and supporting Scottish jazz/soul act Mama Terra at the same venue in April.
SHETLAND-based analytical services company SSQC has changed its name to “better reflect its current and expanding services”.
The company will now be known as Shetland Analytical Services.
The business has also increased its laboratory team by 30 per cent to accommodate a rising demand for its services. Two laboratory technicians, two analysts and a laboratory assistant have joined the team.
Managing director Steven Laidlaw, said SSQC was rooted in the seafood sector, with a particular focus on the aquaculture industry.
“Today, our business has evolved to serve a much wider UK market seeking a range of microbiology, chemistry, and water quality testing,” he said.
THE SCOTTISH Liberal Democrats have criticised the chancellor’s decision to introduce a new 3p-a-mile charge for electric cars from 2028 and warned that rural parts of Scotland could be the worst hit.
The party said the cost to drivers is “likely to be considerably higher in rural areas where there are typically fewer public transport options and journeys are longer”.
Transport spokesperson Jamie Greene said it “beggars belief” that the government is looking to bring in an electric car tax, adding that there should be more charging infrastructure.
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