Events in Shetland for October 2008 and on ...

Events in Shetland for September 2008 ...

WEATHER OUTLOOK FOR SHETLAND

Thursday, 04 September 2008 at 09:47

HEADLINES
24 hours: BRIGHT, SCATTERED SHOWERS
Days 2-5: COOLER WITH SHOWERS
Days 6-10: FAIR ...

UPDATE 29/08/2008 15.30pm: MATCH CANCELLED

SHETLAND will play host to the Western Isles football team tonight for the BP International Island Games Trophy, first claimed by the Western Isles with a 3-1 win in Stornoway two years ago. ...

By RYAN TAYLOR ALMOST 20 years after the SIC first began talking in earnest about a new Anderson High School for Lerwick, councillors were still debating where the new school should be built yesterday. ...

By NEIL RIDDELL ISLES MSP Tavish Scott was this week elected as the new leader of the Liberal Democrats in Scotland with a landslide victory. ...

By RYAN TAYLOR THE HEAD of Viking Energy has called for “crystal clarity” over how much the windfarm company will have to stump up to transmit electricity through a sub-sea cable to the UK mainland. ...

By NEIL RIDDELL THE FETLAR community is calling for action, not words, after the SIC agreed to set up a taskforce in a last-ditch effort to avert a steep popu­lation decline in an island which has lost half of its people in the past decade. ...

By RYAN TAYLOR THE majority of underage drinkers in Shetland rely on their own parents to supply them with alcohol. ...

By LAURA FRIEDLANDER TWELVE months of working “flat out” brought about the opening of the Bronze Age Bressay – Cruester Burnt Mound project on Saturday. ...