John Coutts News Today

MORE concern has been expressed about the impact an influx of cruise ship tourists can have on local transport services after it was claimed a southend bus had to refuse passengers for most of its route - from Dunrossness to Lerwick - as it was already full. The bus in question...

FOUR local charities have received a total of more than £250,000 in funding from the lottery’s awards for all and improving lives grant schemes. Mind Your Head has been awarded two grants, £135,000 for funding its “holistic to well-being” which complements existing...

If the recent past is indeed any guide to what comes next then the SNP’s prospects are surely bleak.

I am grateful to Scotland in Union for submitting freedom of information requests which show that just £3.5million has been spent by the Scottish…

Orkney came behind to claim the Stuart Cup in this year’s junior inter-county competition.

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COPE will receive almost £700,000 in funding from the Scottish government as one of 13 projects designed to improve island life.

LOCAL marine engineering firm Ocean Kinetics is expanding its business interests by establishing a presence in Orkney. The company announced on Wednesday that it had completed the purchase of Hamnavoe Engineering in Stromness. Ocean Kinetics managing director John Henderson said...

Hundreds of Shetlanders took to the streets of Lerwick to greet Santa Claus who arrived on the local lifeboat