Lerwick Post Office News Today

The 29-year-old Shetland man was funding an "out of control" gambling addiction.

THE SENTENCING of a 29-year-old man who admitted embezzling £160,000 from the Lerwick Post Office has been postponed until next month to allow time for the preparation of reports. Jack Simpson, of North Road, Lerwick, admitted the offence which took place between 4 January and...

Tens of thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized from Lerwick Post Office in just two months, police confirmed.

The lodger was well-suited and booted and, with his background as a GP, just the person that Edinburgh landlady Agnes McLeod was happy to have take…

More than £300,000 worth of drugs have been taken off the streets of Shetland since the start of the year – including 500g of heroin at the weekend.

HALF a kilo of heroin with a “wholesale” value of about £55,000 was confiscated by local police last weekend. Shetland area commander Stuart Clemenson said the Class A drug had been taken out of circulation after being detected by drug dogs at the Lerwick Post Office....

POLICE officers in Shetland were kept busy in October and November, new figures show. Data given to community councils highlights that there were 333 incidents recorded in Lerwick during those two months. This included a number of road traffic offences, three assaults, 15...