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THE CHURCH of Scotland has agreed to sell the historic Lunna Kirk to the group set up to keep the building in the community. It comes after the Lunna Kirk Preservation Group was awarded £10,000 towards the purchase. The building, which is the oldest working church in Shetland,...

Work is ongoing to explore a future use of the historic church, but only if the community is behind it

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AROUND 40 people turned out for a meeting in the Vidlin hall last night to discuss the future of Lunna Kirk. Earlier this month the Church of Scotland confirmed that would close and dispose of the historic kirk on the Lunna peninsula this year and expressed the hope that the...

THE CHURCH of Scotland says it is “very, very keen” to see a viable, long-term community-based future for the historic Lunna Kirk. Last week, the church announced the final phase of kirk closures in Shetland which will affect Lunna, Tingwall, Whalsay, Gulberwick, Dunrossness...

THE HISTORIC Lunna Kirk features among the next phase of church closures in Shetland. Also due to be closed this year is Tingwall, Whalsay, Gulberwick, Dunrossness and Out Skerries. Community groups keen on taking on a church building are being encouraged to make their interest...

FORMER Northern Isles MP Lord Wallace has made a visit to Shetland in his new role of moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. Lord Wallace visited the Walter and Joan Gray care home in Scalloway on Thursday, paying tribute to the staff who work there. The...

Thousands of evacuated residents have been left assessing the damage to their homes following the detonation of a World War II bomb in a blast that left a crater the size of a double-decker bus and was heard 10 miles away. More than 2,600 people had to be flee before the controlled explosion of a recently unearthed Nazi Hermann bomb in Exeter, Devon on Saturday evening. A 400-yard cordon was put in place with 1,400 university students among those evacuated.  When the bomb was detonated a hug...