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The cost of living in Cairo has soared so much that security guard Mustafa Gamal had to send his wife and year-old daughter to live with his parents in a village 70 miles south of the Egyptian capital to save money.Gamal, 28, stayed behind, working two jobs, sharing an apartment with other young people and eliminating meat from his diet. “The prices of everything have been

THE PATH around the Gilbertson Park playing field is in line for an upgrade, with a focus on encouraging cycling. The hope is that work on the 2.5 metre wide path will be completed by the end of the current financial year in the spring. Shetland Islands Council’s roads network...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — President Joe Biden strode into the telephone bank at a crowded union hall and eagerly began making calls and eating doughnuts — one frosted, one glazed — as he tries every page in the political playbook to deliver votes for Democrats."What a governor does matters,” Biden said in a pep talk to volunteers who were making Friday night calls for Oregon

TWO men from the Scottish mainland have been sent to prison after turning up uninvited at a Lerwick house and threatening its occupants - a mother and her child. Sheriff Ian Cruickshank said at the town’s court on Thursday that he was left in no doubt that both men were in...

A MAN from Cunningsburgh has been fined £400 after pleading guilty to shouting and swearing at his former partner. Neil Adamson, 46, committed the offence at an address in Lerwick on 21 August this year. Procurator fiscal Duncan Mackenzie told Lerwick Sheriff Court on Thursday...

LERWICK Lifeboat coxswain Stephen Manson has completed his training and ‘passed out’ this week as a qualified RNLI coxswain. Manson has undertaken regular training both in the classroom and at sea over the last six months since his appointment as full-time station coxswain...

A MAN from Bigton who previously admitted three charges of lewd, indecent or libidinous behaviour which were committed in the late 1960s has been placed under supervision for nine months. Robert Robertson, 68, was aged 14 and 15 at the time of the offences. He previously...

A MAN from Glasgow who drove in the North Mainland of Shetland with almost four times the legal limit of alcohol in his system escaped a jail term when he appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court for sentencing. Paul Charles Hughes, of Scaraway Drive, also drove without a full licence,...

SENTENCING of an elderly man who was found to be in possession of thousands of indecent images of children has been deferred for reports. At Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday morning, Brian Laing pleaded guilty to two charges - one of possession of these images and also of...

SENTENCING a man from Burra who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage girl nine years ago has been deferred until the end of November to allow time for the preparation of criminal justice and restriction of liberty reports. Laurance John Manson, 34, with an address of...