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LERWICK's Up Helly Aa has a new jarl in waiting after Shane Jamieson was appointed to its committee. He was selected at a mass meeting of guizers at Mareel in Lerwick on Tuesday evening. Up Helly Aa is something of a family tradition for Shane, whose dad Stewart was guizer jarl...

A MAN from Middlesborough who drove dangerously through Shetland while nearly three times the alcohol limit in a self-described “moment of madness” has been banned from the road for a year. Carlton McCabe told Lerwick Sheriff Court: “You think you are invincible when you...

BLOOMSBURG — A quick-witted woman calmed and escaped from a would-be rapist after he held a 13-inch knife to her throat and forced her to strip, police say.Officers say the woman showed “incredible courage” as she talked Gary David Coco, 43, into putting the knife away and allowing her to put her clothes back on before running from her home to a neighbor’s house.The woman’s

A MAN has had his sentence deferred after pleading guilty to a charge relating to indecent photographs of children. John Masterman, of Leaside, Mossbank, admitted the charge at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday. The charge stated that on 21 June last year at an address in...

A MAN appeared from custody at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Monday to admit assaulting another pub-goer in a newly opened bar at the weekend. Thomas Drever, of Lerwick's Ladies Drive, admitted seizing hold of a man's clothing, pulling him and butting him on the head at the Trench...

BLOOMSBURG — An SUV careened down Wood Street here Friday afternoon, veering across a vacant lot, and barely missing a number of obstacles before it cut across East Fifth Street and struck the porch of a house.Its driver was very lucky to avoid serious injury, said town Officer Ken Auchter.

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SCRANTON — A Berwick man has been indicted by a federal jury for allegedly threatening President Joseph Biden.Robert Maverick Vargo, 25, sent a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson threatening to kill him, the representative's family, the president and U.S. District Court Judge Robert D. Mariani, said U.S. Attorney Gerard M. Karam.The letter also contained a white powder and

In answer to Ian Simmins’ letter, I would suggest the following: An area of central Lerwick, perhaps 200 to 400 metres around the Market Cross, should be a pedestrian zone. All pavements and curb stones removed, cycle and bus lanes marked and access to registered taxi cabs...

NHS Shetland is set to move one of its departments to part of the old Lerwick fish market building to make space at the Gilbert Bain Hospital for the future installation of the long-awaited MRI scanner. The health board said its estates team will move there from the hospital in...