Ryan Nicolson News Today

Fort's Jack Kearney tackles Tom Edwards. Photograph: Iain Ferguson, alba.photos.

RETIRED Shetland Times news editor Jim Tait has been recognised with a prestigious lifetime achievement journalism award. Tait picked up the Barron Trophy at the annual Highlands and Islands Media Awards last week. He retired last year having started out at the paper as a...

THE MANAGER of a local wholesale company has accused the Co-op of “hypocrisy” after it emerged the national retailer objected to plans for a new Aldi supermarket in Macduff in Banffshire. Carl Cross, of Hughson Brothers, said the Co-op was demonstrating “double...