North Yell Development Council launched its five-turbine Garth wind farm in 2017 and plenty is on the horizon for go-ahead group
Dr Mike McDonnell obituary: ‘An extraordinary man who always used his many talents for the public good’
Brian Smith has written an obituary for Jim Irvine, who passed away last month
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.
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.
‘There’s been a lot of history of great music in Shetland, so if I could link that up with a bit of Brighton, that would be good fun’, guitarist and music educator Bruce Dickinson says after moving north
Former SIC vice-convener, whaler and crofter passes away at 92
It is now almost a year since the first Coronavirus cases were detected in Shetland. After having been at the centre of these first cases Iain and Suzanne Malcolmson reflect on how the year has been for them.
Absence of live scene has overhauled touring musicians’ working life
Sea swimming has become a relatively recent recreational pleasure in Shetland but is rapidly growing in popularity
Fully-laden oil tankers from the Sullom Voe oil terminal in Shetland have been loitering near two internationally famous island nature reserves while they wait to be told where to take their cargo, writes former SIC councillor and honorary warden of Noss nature reserve Jonathan Wills.
‘It’s been a pleasure to teach young people and adults alike and see people progress and get to new standards and new levels of playing and confidence’
Seafood Scotland online resource was created when schools were shut due to Covid-19
Founder Stephenie Pagulayan describes reaching finals as “the icing on the cake”.
The world’s largest construction and decommissioning vessel on her first visit to a UK port
One of the many folk who took part in the recent Shetland Staands wi Black Lives Matter event was 83-year-old William Hopkins from Bigton, who was raised in the US and was involved in civil rights marches. Here he and his daughter Yvette share what the movement means to them.
The Shetland Folk Festival should have been hosting its 40th instalment this weekend, but the current pandemic has seen it pushed back to 2021. Neil Riddell looks at what makes the local festival with a global reach mean so much for so many.
Lerwick man played a ‘massive part’ in Shetland public life for many years
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