Shetland Islands County, Scotland News

A joint venture to develop the first wave-power project off a remote group of Scottish islands has been announced.

By Jenny Fyall AMBITIOUS plans to put 26 huge snake-like wave-power machines in the water off Shetland will be announced today.

There was a finance statement delivered this week and it was difficult not to feel some sympathy and admiration for the man deliverA ing.

Mossbank Hall rocked last Friday as six young groups went head to head in "Battle of the Bands". Despite the competitive edge, it was a mutually supportive event showcasing the hard work these young guys have put in during a recent series of band workshops in youth clubs around Shetland.

SCOTLAND'S local government watchdog yesterday ordered an investigation into the running and finances of one of Scotland's smallest councils.

More otters are apparently being killed on Shetland roads. Click on image to enlarge.

"Excited, exhausted and emotional." This described how I was feeling last Thursday when the Hillswick Shop re-opened after the community buy-out in July this year.

The new Fair Isle Bird Observatory nearing completion. Click on image to enlarge.

Shetland Islands Council would find itself an "enormous" 16.3 million over budget next year and entirely deplete the council's oil reserves by 2020 if all the spending pressures and aspirations of services managers were to be met.

A Pictorial Daander Trowe Shetlanda s Crofting Culture . Published by Shetland Cattle from Shetland Breeders Group, A 20.

The operators of Sumburgh Airport are to meet local folk and hear the views of Shetland Islands Council, NHS Shetland and other agencies before deciding whether to impose car parking charges, it emerged on Tuesday.

If there was ever a time when our secondary English class at Brae was a peerie bit bored of hearing about punctuation, nouns, verbs and sentence structure from our beloved teacher George P S Peterson, someone would slip a question about Papa Stour into the conversations in the classroom.

Cats, Clouds and Flatpacks! by Magnie Shearer. Published by The Shetland Times Ltd, A 9.99. Brilliant.

BP Plc expects production from the Schiehallion oil and gas field west of the U.K.a s Shetland Islands to resume early next year after a tanker collision shut down the production platform last month.

The Mossbank Primary School Parent Council would like to see as many parents as possible at an open evening on Wednesday at 7pm in order for folk to find more out about the new Curriculum for Excellence.

Two 27-year-old men who violently assaulted another man when he was unable to defend himself narrowly avoided prison when they appeared at Lerwick Sheriff Court on Wednesday.

School closures are firmly back on the council's agenda in the latest version of the document which sketches out a future for education in the isles.

A Shetland project which aims to put new writing in public toilets attracted poets from all over the world.

A new intake of 24 students - " 12 deck cadets and 12 engineer cadets - " have started their training at the NAFC Marine Centre on a brand new Merchant Navy officer cadet programme.

Trust general manager Ann Black is seeking public views on the proposals. Click on image to enlarge.