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TWO MEN from the Central Belt who committed a violent assault on two people working in Shetland have avoided prison sentences - but have been ordered to pay £8,000 in compensation between them. Steven Hazel and Craig Donaldson were both given community payback orders when they...

Storm Pia is set to turn the run up to Christmas and festive period into a gusty and wet stretch with winds of up to 80mph forecast as one part of the UK has already shut all their schools tomorrow

SHETLAND’s fish auction company says it is confident that the upwards trend in fish being sold through the Scalloway and Lerwick markets will continue in the years ahead. Just under 390,000 boxes of whitefish were sold through Shetland Seafood Auctions (SSA) in 2023, a marked...

“COMING to Shetland has been magical,” says Danaé Canero after driving from south of France to experience the isles. “I was taken aback by the wild and beautiful landscapes here” She adopted her dog Ayko when he was a puppy, travelling 30 hours by car up to the north of...

THE FUTURE of two popular local fish shops and a small processing unit has been secured after a buyer for Blydoit was found at the last minute. Both shops in Lerwick and Scalloway were due to close after the Christmas break with the loss of 16 jobs, but this fate has now been...

    Location: Scalloway Campus, Port Arthur, Scalloway, Shetland ZE1 0UN Salary: £35,242 - £38,170 per year plus distant islands allowance Contract Type: Fixed Term Position Type: Full-Time Hours: 35 hours per week   UHI Shetland invite applications from...

A SHETLAND musician now living south who has not performed in the isles since the 2010s is gearing up for a homecoming gig in the days before Christmas. Joe Watt will perform with his Croft House project at the Scalloway Legion on Friday 22 December. The 27-year-old began...

AROUND 60 students across a range of subjects gathered along with college lecturers and others at lunchtime today (Wednesday) at the UHI Shetland’s Gremista facility to raise their collective voices against proposed £1.2m budget cuts, writes Davie Gardner. Concerns are that...

STUDENTS at UHI Shetland are planning the make their voice heard during a protest against planned cuts to staff and services at the Lerwick campus at Wednesday lunchtime. The protest coincides with the AGM of UHI Shetland’s board of management. The college, part of the...

But there is positive recruitment news elsewhere in Shetland