SHETLAND Fiddle Week is preparing to return for a second year in August, with people set to travel from across the world to ...

TEACHERS across Shetland are to be balloted on potential strike action after a national survey found the majority are struggling due to excessive workloads. Almost 11,000 teachers took part in the ...

SHETLAND’s MP has urged the defence secretary to ensure SaxaVord Spaceport and the surrounding communities are “fully engaged” with the UK Government following the release of its strategic defence ...

WITH Shetland Pride 2025 returning next weekend, organisers have issued an urgent call for more volunteers to help make the annual celebration a success. The Shetland Pride Parade will kick off at ...

THE VALUE of ‘bad debt’ from the last financial year being written off by Shetland Islands Council (SIC) has increased to nearly £280,000. However this was only 0.27 per cent of the £101.52 million ...

TWO long-serving volunteers have been rewarded for their many years of service to the community by receiving British Empire Medals today (Monday). Kathleen Stout, who is a lunch club volunteer with ...

MORE THAN £30,000 has been raised in Shetland over the last two years towards helping to alleviate the human suffering in Gaza. Calling for peace and justice and for an immediate ceasefire to stop ...

JUNIOR inter-county captain Layla Todd had the perfect warm-up for this weekend’s event after shattering another longstanding Shetland athletics record. Just a month after setting a new 5K record for ...

THE PRINCIPAL and CEO of UHI Shetland has added her name to a letter sent to prime minister Sir Keir Starmer urging the government to invest in colleges. The letter has been signed by college ...

Artist Ron Sandford was born in Greenock in 1937. His talent and curiosity for life, place and work has taken him all over the world. He moved to Cullivoe, Yell, with his family in 2002. From there he ...

A NEW book memorialising Shetlanders’ Covid experience has been launched. It is part of the Remembering Together project, a national scheme administered locally by Shetland Arts. The books will be ...

GOOD fishing practices in Shetland are being highlighted in a new report by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the body which issues the blue ecolabel for sustainably caught fish and shellfish. The ...