AROUND 60 students across a range of subjects gathered along with college lecturers and others at lunchtime today (Wednesday) at the UHI Shetland’s Gremista facility to raise their collective voices against proposed £1.2m budget cuts, writes Davie Gardner. Concerns are that.
Familiar dramatic landscapes will still feature throughout the new series of BBC s Shetland, including Lerwick, but where else are the stunning Scottish locations featured in season eight?
BBC Radio Shetland’s winter schedule returns to the airwaves from Monday night. It marks the start of six months of documentaries and music shows, as well as a return of long-standing programmes. Eva Runciman looks back on the 41st Shetland Folk Festival, with two hour-long.
The funeral of Lise Sinclair was held in Fair Isle. The sun streamed in the windows of the small Methodist Chapel where Lise had often played the organ. Family and friends gathered to pay their last respects to a radiant personality who’ll be remembered far beyond her native.
This is a slightly re-worked and (inevitably) shortened version of Davie Gardner’s tribute to Robbie Leith who died earlier this month, aged 61. I think it would be hard to argue with the view that Robbie Leith was a ‘genuine wan-aff’. Like many folk, I heard his name.