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Funding boost for Hoswick parking hub

A ‘PARKING hub’ which would also feature an electric vehicle charging point and an outdoor seating area could be created in Hoswick to alleviate traffic congestion when tour buses head to the village’s visitor centre.

10 October 2018

Pier in Lerwick

Sea scouts look to buy lodberry after ‘eviction’

THE LERWICK sea scouts group is looking for help from the public to buy a waterside building it had used for over 50 years before it was put up for sale by owners Shetland Islands Council.

9 October 2018

Over 1,400 days lost to injuries and incidents at SIC

OVER 1,400 working days were lost at Shetland Islands Council in the last financial year due to injuries and incidents on the job, according to new figures.

8 October 2018

Isles fencer selected for Commonwealth event

A SHETLAND fencer is counting down the days until he represents Scotland again at the Commonwealth Fencing Championship in Australia next month.

8 October 2018

Tommy the cat sauntering on stage at the Garrison Theatre during a Shetland Community School of Ballet rehearsal. Photo: Susan Msalila

Shops, bars, police station – cat’s travels are online hit

5 October 2018

A Typhoon jet flying over the Saxa Vord radar base. Photo: MoD

Radar gets planning consent months after launching

5 October 2018

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Baird Family Hospital/ANCHOR Centre service project manager Louise-Anne Budge (left) and senior service project manager Gail Thomson in Lerwick on Wednesday. Photo: Chris Cope/Shetland News

More accommodation at new Aberdeen maternity hospital

3 October 2018

Lynn Johnson at her cake fridge last year. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News

Crowdfunder cash would be icing on the cake for tearoom

3 October 2018

Air ambulance teddy bear fundraisers renew appeal

2 October 2018

Turbines would be even more out of scale

28 September 2018

Traffic concerns over housing plans

27 September 2018

John Swinney cutting the ribbon at the Anderson High School site. Photo: Chris Cope/Shetland News

Deputy first minister opens new Anderson

24 September 2018

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Walk to raise money for in-demand Women’s Aid

21 September 2018

Guests posing for photos in their wooly hats as the week formally opened on Sunday evening. Photos: Shetland News

Hats off to wool week as festival opens

24 September 2018

Arrow. Photo: Ian Leask

Sturgeon says freight concern is an ‘important issue’

21 September 2018

Brian Stewart (back right) with his Surrey Space Centre colleagues with the project's main satellite.

Space is the life of Brian

20 September 2018

The Gulberwick pumping station. Photo: Shetland News

Pump station breakdown won’t be barrier to new housing

19 September 2018

Review: EP is ‘brash, bold and boisterous’

18 September 2018

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Drop in demand will not lead to higher prices, says airline

14 September 2018

The coastguard attending to a medivac back in 2013. Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media

Walk-out threatened over return of officer

13 September 2018

NorthLink freight boat Hildasay.

Call for daily freight sailings to boost capacity

12 September 2018

Ambulance staff to be balloted over fatigue

11 September 2018

Forgotten Sons, left to right: John Gair, Robert 'Birdy' Burgess, John Valentine and Sandy Middleton.

Rockers unleash new single

7 September 2018

The World at Morrison Dock on Thursday morning. Photo: Chris Cope/Shetland News

Luxury in Lerwick as The World comes to the isles

6 September 2018

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A snapshot of what part of the development could look like.

Plans in for Scalloway housing development

3 September 2018

The Sumburgh Airport car park. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News

Still no sign of parking charge

30 August 2018

Shetland Amenity Trust chief executive Mat Roberts. Photo: Shetland News

Amenity trust’s finances ‘heading in right direction’

31 August 2018

SEPA names isles’ top CO2 polluters

31 August 2018

A screenshot of the fundraising page taken on Friday afternoon.

Fundraising support ‘means the world’

24 August 2018

Aimee Budge on the right with sister Kirsty.

Aimee up for national award

24 August 2018

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Poet ‘delighted’ after prestigious award win

23 August 2018

Plans submitted for flats

21 August 2018

(Back Row L-R) Amber Paton, Bethany Redfern, Katie Moore, Freya Leslie, Stephanie Mercer, Alanoss Jamieson, Tash Matoba, Sula Maclennan, Tenneka Patterson, India Reynolds and Maria Hutchison (Front Row L-R) Vinessa Carr, Tahlia Leslie, Amy Hunter, Karis Leask (captain), Tegan Hendren, Lisa Goudie and Kayla Shearer.

Victory for footballers in Orkney

21 August 2018

Ten-mile galley pull for new SMUHA shed

Ten-mile galley pull for new SMUHA shed

18 August 2018

Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael MP.

MP: communications problem highlights isles’ ‘fragile’ links

17 August 2018

Escaped cow caught on film checking out Bigton toilets

Escaped cow caught on film checking out Bigton toilets

16 August 2018

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The inter-island flight schedule has been covered by a relief aircraft. Photo: Peter Johnson/Shetland News

Plane suffers engine failure after take-off

14 August 2018

Shetland MSP Tavish Scott.

MSP says students will miss out on uni places

13 August 2018

Photo from BBC Radio Shetland.

Fundraisers complete 80-mile walk in memory of Beth

10 August 2018

Archer Simmons cuts the ribbon, helped by dad Andrew and watched by Dr Susan Bowie, holding Maisie Simmons, and (on the right) Pam Muir.

Fruit and veg for all as health centre polytunnel opens

10 August 2018

Slower than mañana

10 August 2018

The Sumburgh Airport control tower.

HIAL suffers two-pronged attack from MSPs

8 August 2018

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Photo: Shetland Library

Book returns to Lerwick library 40 years late

8 August 2018

Highlands and Islands list MSP Jamie Halcro Johnston. Photo: Chris Cope/Shetland News

Highlands and Islands MSP wants action on fixed links

7 August 2018

Jan and Ian Cummings at the Skaw beach on Sunday morning.

Fundraisers’ walk from Skaw to Sumburgh

6 August 2018

Lamba Ness could become a vertical launch site for small satellites. Photos: Chris Cope/Shetland News

Space centre – what do Unst folk think?

30 July 2018

Plans to create new road for Viking works

27 July 2018

Second cycling sportive to raise funds for local hall

25 July 2018

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