STATKRAFT has announced it will stop developing any further green hydrogen projects – but two already planned for Shetland will continue. The Norwegian energy giant said it would stop developing new ...

SOME ancient features and finds have been discovered this week at an archaeological dig in Cunningsburgh which are likely to stem from the Pictish or Viking age. Supported by Archaeology Shetland, the ...

Community / Giving the mother tongue the respect it deserves New book highly praised by linguists from around the world establishes Shaetlan as a language in its own right ...

ISLES MP Alistair Carmichael abstained in a vote in the Commons last night that proscribed Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation. He said he believed the group should not have been proscribed, ...

SHETLAND’s two parliamentarians have welcomed news that four possible subsea tunnels have been recommended for further consideration in a significant new report on inter-island connectivity. MP ...

CHARITIES like Dogs Against Drugs “should be stopped” because they are causing more harm than good, according to a major activist on drug reform. Neil Woods spent 14 years as an undercover police ...

A FIRST glance it may look like any other property listing you might see in Shetland – a semi-detached house up for rent on the island of Yell. It is nicely furnished, looks clean and would make a ...

A MAN from Rock Ferry has been landed with a total financial penalty of more than £1,000 after a night out with workmates went awry. Connor Blackburn, of New Chester Road, was also disqualified from ...

THERE is “genuine concern” in the Brae community over speeding and safety with increased traffic expected over the coming months during a nearby road closure. The A968 Dales Lees road between Voe and ...

A DRINK-driver who only avoided hitting a pram with a two-year-old child in it through “good fortune” has been sent to prison. Jaroslaw Jaworski hit four cars along Scalloway’s Main Street and Port ...

It adds that NorthLink recommends booking a cabin, sleeping pod or reclining seat for the overnight journeys on its service – all of which are to or from Shetland. The website acknowledges there are ...

THE IDEA of tunnels to Yell, Unst, Bressay and Whalsay are to be taken forward by Shetland Islands Council (SIC) for further consideration. However a push by North Isles councillor Robert Thomson for ...