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LERWICK Port Authority’s chief executive says the organisation is “very optimistic” there is significant potential for Shetland to support the manufacturing and operation of offshore wind farms - as well as continued oil and gas decommissioning. It comes as developers...

BEHAVING in a threatening manner and verbally abusing a female acquaintance in the newly open Trench nightclub earlier this month has cost a Glasgow man more than £800 in fines. Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday that Peter McLean repeatedly approached and verbally abused...

A WOMAN from Caithness has been banned from the road for three years after crashing her car into a field near the Sella Ness accommodation camp while she had five times the legal limit of alcohol in her system. Rachel Jones, of Mid Clyth, Lybster, pleaded guilty to a charge of...

SENTENCE on a young man from Sandwick who pleaded guilty to a charge of dangerous driving has been deferred until January next year. Luke William Bryant admitted driving dangerously at grossly excessive speeds between Lerwick and Cunningsburgh on 12 April. The court heard that...

A LOCAL man who now lives in Aberdeen has narrowly avoided a jail after headbutting another man in a bar in Lerwick last month. Thomas Drever appeared for sentencing at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday having pleaded guilty to a charge of assault at an earlier court hearing....

A TWENTY five year old man from Lerwick has been banned from driving for three years after admitting a charge of drink driving. Callen Tyler Laurenson, of 89 St Olaf Street, was found to be three times the legal alcohol limit when stopped by police on the Esplanade in the town...

A MAN from Burra who previously pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl nine and a half years ago has been ordered to carry out 225 hours of unpaid work and has been put on the sex offenders register for nine months. Lerwick Sheriff Court heard on Wednesday that...

More cloud in midlands, east anglia, and eastern scotland. showery outbreaks continuing in the north of scotland. some of them falling as snow on the high ground. temperatures can fix in lerwick and stornoway. ii in cardiff and plymouth. a cold day. once again clear skies. plymouth. a cold day. once again clearskies. mist plymouth. a cold day. once again clear skies. mist and fog patches in the north and east. a few showers coming in ahead of this band of rain which will be accompanied by streng...

DANVILLE — Danville schools will be open for in-person classes Monday, the interim superintendent says.The district had moved students online after someone discovered a written note on a high school locker room bathroom stall that stated in part: “I'm going to shoot the school tomorrow.”School police and administrators have been investigating and have some leads but have not

A “CLASSIC case of the red mist descending” upon a driver after a botched overtake manoeuvre has landed a man with fines totalling more than £1,700. Peter Lovie, of Mossbank, also “fell flat on his face on the pavement” after later trying to run away from police...