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Updated: January 2, 2021, 9:10 am © Supplied by Pentland Ferries Sign up for our daily newsletter featuring the top stories from The Press and Journal. Thank you for signing up to The Press and Journal newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up A ferry service between Caithness and Orkney will be suspended for a week next month to help cut costs. Pentland Ferries says it has been forced to review its operations and make some short-term changes to safeguard the service beyond the pandemic, following a 70% reduction in business. Managing director Andrew Banks sai...

SHETLAND’s inter-island ferries are to move to a restricted timetable from Sunday morning (3 January) to preserve the overall resilience of the service. The local bus timetable has also been amended so that key workers can, if required, meet the appropriate ferry run. The new timetables are expected to be in place until at least the end of January 2021. 8 of 14Adverts It comes amid a spike in cases of coronavirus in Shetland, with over 300 people now self-isolating. All ferries should be booked either by phone or online – the booking office will be open on Saturday 2 January from 12 noon ...

In the days before Christmas, Orcadians living on the Scottish mainland typically make their way north to where the land meets the sea. At Gills Bay, a few miles west of John O’Groats, they watch the weather and rough waters of the Pentland Firth as a ferryman considers whether it is safe to sail them home. When the boats are cancelled or delayed, travellers hole up in a hotel and make do with impromptu mainland festivities until the waters are calm enough to cross. Uncertainty is expected. This year, however, travellers have to contend with more than the weather. The almost universal dil...

http://shet.news/o0hko Copied! A LOCAL councillor has been censured by the Standards Commission for Scotland after admitting a breach of the councillors’ code of conduct for failing to keep his register of interests up to date. Though severely criticised for his conduct, councillor Ryan Thomson was not suspended and can continue to represent the North Isles and act in the senior roles as chairman of the transport and environment committee as well as ZetTrans. 13 of 14Adverts During a short virtual hearing streamed in the commission’s YouTube channel on Thursday morning, the b...

Councillor Thomson adds that fixed links could bring economic and environmental benefits