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Vattenfall and Pelamis Wave Power launched a joint-venture - Aegir Wave Power Ltd - to develop a wave power project off the Shetland Islands, the area's first.

To Lerwick, early, on relatively clear roads, thanks to absolutely superb gritting and ploughing.

ALMOST ALL of the 84,500 tonnes of oil which was being carried by the Braer, the tanker wrecked on the Shetland Islands, has now leaked into the sea, salvage experts said yesterday.

In an outspoken intervention on Thursday at the trust Mr Cluness warned that moves to reform the 33-year-old charity by replacing councillors with independent trustees were "a real mistake" and "dangerous to the future of this community". But independent trustee John Scott accused the convener of putting the trust's charitable status at risk and ...

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.

For the next year, Shetland Life will be featuring a series of articles exploring the themes of architecture and place.

"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.

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.

The Loch Rannoch at Sullom Voe. Click on image to enlarge. Shetland Islands Council is set to lose well over A 1 million this year due to the continuing shutdown of the Schiehallion field west of Shetland.

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.