The last serious study of how much energy is wasted here in the UK was done by the Association for Decentralised Energy in 2015, writes environmental campaigner Vic Thomas
The energy industry’s ‘Dark Secret’
Shetland’s annual literature festival Wordplay, celebrating its 20th birthday this year, comes to an end later today (Sunday). Alex Purbrick went along for Shetland News and spoke to local and visiting authors
Retired skippers John Arthur Irvine and Willie Williamson have more than 100 years of fishing between them. Both played a key role in progressing Whalsay’s pelagic fishing industry to what it is today. Here they share some of their stories with Chloe Irvine.
Celebrating life amongst dark times is a powerful theme running through this year’s Screenplay film festival, writes Alex Purbrick.
Libby Weir-Breen, who helped to put Shetland on the world’s wildlife tourism map and founded the Island Holidays tour business with the late Bobby Tulloch, has died at the age of 72.
