Crime drama filming to begin in Bixter on Tuesday
ITV Studios’ producer of the crime drama Shetland, Louise Say, responds to concern voiced here by Tom Morton who earlier this week asked whether it is a good idea to resume filming the popular series as early as April
Please come to Shetland, Shetland. But not yet, says Tom Morton.
Grant funding to plant trees available through Scottish Forestry
Reflecting on Shetland’s recent and not quite so recent history, Tresta-based crofter and tattie grower Rosa Steppanova has submitted this work of pure fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locals, and incidents are, of course, either the product of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner.
Councils yet to persuade government of case for local variations
As the number of local lochs affected by toxic algae bloom rises to six, the regularly occurring phenomenon is not entirely natural, writes Alex Purbrick.
Study, however, says ‘girls across the whole of the UK are experiencing challenges as a result of their gender and age – even in the top performing areas’
As former Shetland MSP Tavish Scott prepares for a ‘quieter’ life at Scottish Rugby, he spends a Friday afternoon with Shetland News editor Hans J Marter for one last big interview with the local media.
More than 1,000 parcels with food supplies were distributed locally in 2018/19
WE ARE living in unprecedented times with record defeats, cabinet resignations every other week and a woefully ineffective and disunited Labour opposition, writes SNP Highlands and Islands list MSP Maree Todd.
Series 5 of the popular murder-mystery starts on Tuesday
