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THE TEAM running the electronic seafood auction in Shetland says fishermen continue to get more money for their fish than elsewhere as buyers are prepared to pay a higher price for quality and freshness. Shetland Seafood Auction has been selling fish electronically from the...

Scottish fishers are to fund additional surveys of North Sea stocks as anger grows over the failure to tackle what they say is "poor" science.

Sirs, I write with increased concern for the future of your splendid festival. This is informed by my considerable disappointment that the convenor of Shetland Islands Council is still claiming to believe his internal legal advice.  Please realise you will not continue to be...

TWO BROTHERS from Glasgow who admitted assaulting staff members at a bar in Lerwick town centre last summer have been fined a combined total of £1,900. Forty five year old Brian Kirkpatrick and 44 year old Paul Kirkpatrick, both of Birgidale Terrace, Castlemilk, admitted...

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A TWENTY one year old man who seriously injured another man after crashing into him while driving on the wrong side of the roads has been banned from driving for 21 months and ordered to carry out 210 hours of unpaid work. Ronan Wark, of Lerwick’s Harbour Street, previously...

As we approach the date of another postponed Lerwick Up Helly Aa, many people will be fondly remembering happy times and looking forwards to better days. The Up Helly Aa Committee have said the much loved celebration will return next year “in the same format”.  On the...

A SECOND crowdfunding campaign has been launched to expand archaeological investigations into a site in Scalloway described as being of “huge significance” to Shetland’s history.  In 2020 a total of 26 human remains, some structures thought to be from the Pictish era and...

POLICE officers in Shetland were kept busy in October and November, new figures show. Data given to community councils highlights that there were 333 incidents recorded in Lerwick during those two months. This included a number of road traffic offences, three assaults, 15...