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A BRAE teenager with no driving experience who took her father’s car without consent to go on a joyride to Lerwick while twice the legal alcohol limit will be sentenced next month. The young woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, admitted five charges, including driving...

Following behind. its going to be a breezy night particularly close to the coast with one or two showers here and there. inland, we could well see a touch of frost but we are not likely to see that on the coast but these are the overnight temperatures so its going to be a cold night in the northern half of the country than we have seen this week. as we head through the course of tomorrow, high pressure really takes charge of the weather. things settled down but you can see another weather front ...

LERWICK police had to endure more than four hours of “depraved conduct” from a man they arrested and took to the cells, the town’s court has heard. Craig Nelson, of Grampian Prison, was sentenced to 33 months in prison at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday. Sheriff Ian...

A MAN who drove while nearly six times the alcohol limit has been banned from the road for three years. John Johnson, of East Voe, Scalloway, was also placed under supervision for 15 months and given 135 hours of unpaid work. The 47-year-old appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on...

AN “OUT and out liar” who defrauded the owners of an island farm to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds has been sent to prison. Sheriff Ian Cruickshank told Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday that Matthew Whiles had indulged in an “incredibly tangled web of deceit”....

A WOMAN has been given an 18-month prison sentence for “alcohol-fuelled and truculent behaviour” outside a Lerwick supermarket in the middle of the afternoon. Sarah Irvine, 37, of Grampian Prison, appeared from custody via videolink at Lerwick Sheriff Court to admit a number...

NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump’s company was fined $1.6 million Friday for a scheme in which the former president’s top executives dodged personal income taxes on lavish job perks — a symbolic, hardly crippling blow for an enterprise boasting billions of dollars in assets.A fine was the only penalty a judge could impose on the Trump Organization after its conviction last month

BOSTON (AP) — The U.S. wireless carrier T-Mobile said Thursday that an unidentified malicious intruder breached its network in late November and stole data on 37 million customers, including addresses, phone numbers and dates of birth.T-Mobile said in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that the breach was discovered Jan. 5.

David Crosby, the brash rock musician who evolved from a baby-faced harmony singer with the Byrds to a mustachioed hippie superstar and an ongoing troubadour in Crosby, Stills, Nash & (sometimes) Young, has died at 81, several media outlets reported Thursday.The New York Times reported, based on a text message from Crosby's sister in law, that the musician died Wednesday night.

A LERWICK man who was found with nine wraps of heroin and struggled violently with police officers when they tried to search them has avoided a jail term. Simon Smith, of the town’s Water Lane, appeared for sentencing at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday after pleading guilty...