Vic Thomas News Today

FOUR local charities have received a total of more than £250,000 in funding from the lottery’s awards for all and improving lives grant schemes. Mind Your Head has been awarded two grants, £135,000 for funding its “holistic to well-being” which complements existing...

The Roanoke-raised chief exec of the National Rifle Association announced he’s retiring after 33 years and boasted about “all that we have accomplished.” For America, that includes more guns, more gun deaths and more mass shootings.

The Shetland Islands must now be one of the best examples of renewable energy hypocrisy in the world. Going from an environment famous for its undeveloped outstanding landscape, wildlife habitats etc to an environment of scarred and defaced hills, valleys and peatland being...

BBC Radio Shetland is ready to host its annual Children in Need fundraising appeal on Friday night. Almost 80 items have been donated for the popular auction. Ian Smith of Troswick started making model wooden buses for the appeal back in 1985 when he worked as a lighthouse...

Whilst I pretty much agree with a lot of the comments criticising the approval of the Rosebank oil development, I cannot support the hidden truths, lies and profit driven propaganda that fronts the current debate on petrol/diesel vs battery cars or wind farm proliferation...

THE TURNAROUND in Shetland Amenity Trust’s finances in the last year has been “phenomenal”, according to chair Alison Moncrieff. She was speaking after accounts showed that the trust, which looks after Shetland’s cultural and natural heritage, recorded an in-year surplus...

The Anthem GO Outside Festival (GO Fest) returns to Elmwood Park in Roanoke, Virginia, this October 13-15. Organizers are pleased to announce a new partnership…

What are Ramblings? Ramblings are a collection of short items that have caught our attention for one reason or another.

Roanoke is now officially a Bee City USA affiliate city — vowing to protect bees, butterflies, and other pollinators.

It's official - Roanoke has been designated as a "Bee City USA," affiliate, the 13th in Virginia. Bee Cities provide support for pollinators by providing healthy bee habitats and using native plants. Vic Thomas Park just off Memorial Avenue is home to wildflower gardens and what Roanoke City calls "pollinator-friendly" species. Roanoke Mayor Sherman Lea