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In today’s (Friday, 12th April) edition of The Shetland Times:

Shetland’s tourism sector was highlighted to international markets during Scotland’s biggest business-to-business event for travel.

Almost two weeks have passed since a painful but profoundly poignant International Workers' Memorial Day (IWMD) for me spent in Aberdeen. Fifty weeks countdown now until Sunday 28 April 2024. Shetland Islands Council  left me and all other families devastated with their...

SHETLAND Islands Council has become the latest local authority to call for ban on the sale of single-use vapes in Scotland. It follows a motion brought to a meeting of the full council on Friday morning. Shetland Central councillor Davie Sandison, who presented the motion, said...

THE OLD HORSA building at the Baltasound Junior High School in Unst is set to be demolished. The building is currently used as storage for the school, and as a workshop for estate operations. But it is no longer required on the school site and is said to be in a poor state of...

SHETLAND Community Choir is getting ready for the first of a series of concerts during spring and summer which start this Friday (12 May). Beside the Sea will feature a varied programme ranging from Haydn’s The Heavens are Telling to works by Norwegian composer Ola Gjeilo and...

The scenes yesterday after King Charless crowning at Westminster Abbey echoed those that took place at street parties all around the country at the Queens Coronation in 1953.

A NEW photo exhibition which pays homage to the important role women have played in the fishing industry will open this weekend in Lerwick. The display, due to be held at the museum, is a collaboration between Shetland Amenity Trust and Shetland Arts. It opens on Saturday (13...

Annual Big Lunch project becomes part of official events to mark crowning of King Charles III

POLICE officers in Shetland have embarked on a series of events to meet communities and hear first-hand of local issues and concern. The first such ‘Coffee with a Cop’ events were held in Whalsay and in Unst last month. Chief inspector Stuart Clemenson was joined by two...