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Rising North tickets to go on sale tonight
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Rising North tickets to go on sale tonight
Following last night’s (Thursday) public meeting in the Tingwall Hall on turbine noise and adverse health impacts, Westside resident Dr Sally Huband provides some background for those who were unable to attend the meeting.
A challenge to walk as many steps as possible helped councillor John Fraser pull himself out of a period of depression and lose almost three stone at the start of the year. Here, he talks about how walking helped him through a difficult period.
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Talent shines as youth music festival returns
Bertie Summers, one of Shetland’s two members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, is reflecting on the first 12 months of giving the isles’ young people a voice locally and further afield
Drama is alive and kicking in Shetland, reports Carol Jamieson from the last night of the 73rd county drama festival
In this opinion piece, Green campaigner Alex Armitage makes the case for a more diversified education system that would provide equally and positively for all young people, from academic learning to practical skills education.
Our Up Helly Aa correspondent Davie Gardner meets jarl Beinir Sigmundsson ahead of the Bressay festival getting underway today (Friday)
Westside resident Sally Huband has been forced to sell her house in East Burrafirth to escape subaudible acoustic emissions from the Viking turbines. Here she details her – so far – unsuccessful attempts to get the industry to act on the issue.
Davie Gardner reports from the Lerwick’s fiery Up Helly Aa procession
Former employee and co-director of Richard Gibson Architects, Nick Brett, pays tribute to his boss who died on Boxing Day at his home in Lerwick, aged 89.
