Page 191 - Lerwick News Today

A NEIGHBOURHOOD centre in Lerwick is at risk of being closed by the end of January if more new committee members do not come forward. An EGM is being held at the Sandveien Neighbourhood Centre on Kantersted Road at 7pm on Thursday 20 January. If no volunteers come forward to...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — There was no food, water or sleep for Susan Phalen as she spent a frigid night inside her car stopped on Interstate 95 in Virginia. Meera Rao and her husband were only 100 feet past an exit but were unable to move for 16 hours.Sen.

MORE than £130,000 is coming Shetland’s way from a new Scottish Government fund designed to get island communities living healthier lifestyles. The big winner when it comes to funding is Shetland Recreational Trust, which has secured nearly £103,000. Chief executive Steven...

A TWENTY five year old man from Lerwick who threatened to murder a social worker has had sentence adjourned until next month. Kyle Swannie, of the town’s Hoofields, admitted making the threat in a phone call to the social worker’s colleague on 18 October last year. At...

A WOMAN who shouted, swore and struggled with her former partner before stubbing out a cigarette on a police sergeant’s hand has been ordered to pay £400 in restitution. Leanne Richardson, of Hamarsgarth, Mossbank, had previously admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday explained the scientific rationale for shortening its COVID-19 isolation and quarantine recommendations, and clarified that the guidance applies to kids as well as adults.The CDC also maintained that, for people who catch COVID-19, testing is not required to emerge from five days of isolation — despite

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana’s governor is slated to posthumously pardon Homer Plessy on Wednesday, more than a century after the Black man was arrested in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow a Jim Crow law creating “whites-only” train cars.The Plessy v Ferguson case went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which ushered in a half-century of laws calling for “separate but equal”

A TWENTY one year old man has been spared a jail sentence after admitting attacking another man with a metal baton before kicking and stamping on his head. Matthew Williamson, of Lerwick’s Norgaet, previously pleaded guilty to possessing the weapon and striking the man on the...

A MAN in his seventies who took an unsolicited photo of a teenage girl in a Lerwick supermarket will be sentenced next month.  Brian Laing, 73, of the town’s Staneyhill, admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive manner by taking a photo of the 16 year old without her...

Why are so many vaccinated people getting COVID-19 lately?A couple of factors are at play, starting with the emergence of the highly contagious omicron variant.