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A SHETLAND man has been named plant operator apprentice of the year by the Scottish Plant Owners Association. Deklyn Feather, 31, works as an apprentice for EMN Plant Ltd. He said: “I think it’s fair to say that this has been emotional for me. I’ve never experienced...

TEACHERS in Shetland have gone on strike again today (Monday) amid no breakthrough in the national pay dispute. Most schools in the isles are closed as members the Education Institute for Scotland (EIS) and the Association of Head Teachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS) take a...

A LOCAL arts organisation is now looking to renovate and develop its existing premises instead of finding a site for a new build in Scalloway. Gaada has agreed to purchase the old Methodist kirk in Bridge End, which it currently uses as a visual art workshop. Director and...

A LOCAL Green councillor who previously spoke up for the idea of electric vehicle chargers in supermarket carparks has welcomed the impending arrival of new charge points at the Tesco in Lerwick. Alex Armitage, who represents Shetland South, said there will be much of this kind...

CARE homes across Shetland have been given generally positive inspection reports - but staff shortages are continuing to have an impact on some services. The only care home not directly operated by Shetland Islands Council - the Walter and Joan Gray in Scalloway, which is run by...

PROMOTE Shetland is still collating viewing figures of its Lerwick Up Helly Aa live streaming but is confident it reached tens of thousands of people. A spokesperson for the service, whose role it is to promote Shetland as a place to visit and to move to, said it was hard to...

Gender restrictions have been lifted for the return of Lerwick's famous Up Helly Aa fire festival.

All secondary schools and the majority of primary schools and nurseries in Shetland will close for a teacher strike on Monday, February 6.

MOST schools in Shetland will be affected by industrial action next Monday (6 February). Members of two teaching unions, the Education Institute for Scotland (EIS) and the Association of Head Teachers and Deputes in Scotland (AHDS), have voted to undertake industrial action on...

MORE than six thousand tonnes of road salt has arrived in Shetland to top-up the council’s stocks following the heavy snowfall experienced in December. The road salt was taken to Scalloway by the cargo vessel Aasfjord, and it was unloaded on Thursday straight onto the pier....