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Councils join to fight coastguard cuts
Shetland Marine News - 22 hours ago
SHETLAND Islands Council and Western Isles Council have agreed to collaborate in a campaign to save their threatened coastguard coordination centres. ...Trio of councillors complain to finance minister about Accounts ...
Shetland Times Online - Neil Riddell - 1 hour ago
It comes after the commission staged a two-day hearing into Shetland Islands Council in July this year. The commission's findings stated that the SIC was ...NHS Shetland chief executive wished well as she retires
Shetland Times Online - 3 hours ago
... we now have a second ambulance for Shetland, and we have seen truly successful partnership working with Shetland Islands Council to shift the balance of ...Tributes to Sandra - Shetland News
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Police state?
Shetland News - 21 hours ago
Just where on the planet does the chief executive of Shetland Islands Council think ... As far as I know, never in the history of Shetland Islands Council ...No majority against windfarm - Shetland Times Online
all 3 news articles »Fury in face of coastguard closure
Shetland Marine News - 4 days ago
SHETLAND Islands Council has reacted with fury and disbelief to news that the isles' coastguard station could be closed or reduced to a daytime only ...Public services mergers on the cards - Shetland News
Isles councils in combined services move - Press and Journal
Convener voices anger at threat hanging over Shetland coastguard ... - Shetland Times Online
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Birdwatcher from Long Ditton speaks about Antarctic ordeal
Elmbridge Guardian - Joe Dyke - 1 day ago
Chris Collins, of Long Ditton, was working on the Clelia II when heavy seas north-east of the South Shetland Islands left it without radar or radio for 24 ...SIC faces complaints after backing wind farm
Shetland News - 5 days ago
SHETLAND Islands Council on Tuesday gave their backing to the massive Viking Energy wind farm project. A recommendation by the council's own planners to ...Shetland to debate plan for giant wind farm - Scotsman
Wind farm plan to be considered - BBC News
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Campaigners confirm Viking complaints
Shetland News - 3 days ago
All bar one of Shetland Islands Council's 22 members are trustees of Shetland Charitable Trust, which has a 45 per cent stake in the proposed 127 turbine ...Sharleen Spiteri to star in movie
The Press Association - 4 days ago
The former Texas singer will star in Between Weathers, which is to be shot in the Shetland Islands. The film shows a remote community battling to protect ...Weather warning
Shetland News - 4 days ago
Shetland Islands Council has set up a web page to highlight any disruption ... Information will also be available on Shetland Islands Council's website ...Isles braced for wintry onslaught as Met Office issues severe ... - Shetland Times Online
all 3 news articles »CCTV for Shetland Islands town
Wavestore - 23 Nov 2010
A wireless security camera system has been installed in a town on the Shetland Islands, prompting some "very good successes", according to the police's ...SIC resists police station cuts - Shetland News
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Charity demand Viking inquiry
Shetland News - 4 days ago
CONSERVATION charity the John Muir Trust has joined calls for a public inquiry after Shetland Islands Council voted in favour of building one of Europe's ...Shetland oil spill 'could reach Greenland'
IceNews - 5 days ago
An oil spill could reach the shores of Greenland if there was a deepwater blowout near the Shetland Islands in the UK, according to a drilling firm's ...
Shetland deepwater oil spill could reach Norfolk and Greenland ...
The Guardian - 7 Dec 2010
An oil spill from a deepwater blowout near the Shetland Islands could reach the coastlines of Scotland, eastern England, Norway and Greenland, according to ...SIC planners oppose Viking wind farm
Shetland News - 9 Dec 2010
SHETLAND Islands Council's planning department believes Viking Energy has not demonstrated that its proposed 457 megawatt wind farm could be built without ...MCA chief denies costs are driving cuts
Shetland Marine News - 2 days ago
... will be no diminution of the quality of search and rescue and rescue services in particular around the Shetland Islands as a result of these proposals. ...Backlash over coastguard bases revamp - Aberdeen Press and Journal
New coastguard centre for Lee in service revamp - Portsmouth News
Stornoway and Shetland battle it out to keep their coastguard stations - stv.tv
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Victoria Beckham and Rihanna inspire new interest Fair Isle jerseys
Daily Mail - Ticky Hedley-dent - 13 Dec 2010
Knitting used to be a primary source of income for the women of the Shetland Islands. These old ladies — who never knit on the Sabbath — are so modest they ...
DXpedition to the South Shetland Islands
Southgate Amateur Radio Club - 1 Dec 2010
Julius Fabbri is starting an expedition to the South Shetland Islands (AN-010) in December to honour the Italian adventurer Renato Cepparo and his team who ...Fuel payment plea thrown out
Shetland News - 8 Dec 2010
However Shetland Islands Council did agree to consider targeting some of its reserves to those suffering fuel poverty and in urgent need of extra help. ...Parents put their faith in ministers
Shetland News - 8 Dec 2010
SHETLAND Islands Council ratified Tuesday's decision to close the secondary department of Scalloway junior high school when it met on Wednesday morning. ...Reserves could pay for new homes
Shetland News - 25 Nov 2010
SHETLAND Islands Council convener Sandy Cluness has won unanimous backing from his fellow councillors for a plan to invest the community's oil funds in ...
The Magnificent Nine
Shetland Times Online - 3 days ago
... for future generations keeping them here in Shetland.. the stunning and beautiful Shetland Islands are not much good if no one is here to enjoy them.Tourism hotspots of 2010
International Business Times - 5 hours ago
As Scotland witnessed Shetland Islands, the third largest island of Scotland and the fifth largest island of British Isles, being ranked sixth among the top ...
More cash for Girlsta hatchery
Shetland Marine News - 10 Dec 2010
The company has already secured financial assistance from Shetland Islands Council and European Fisheries Fund towards the £3.7 million project. ...Drivers warned as salt shortage bites
Shetland News - 9 Dec 2010
WITH SALT supplies across Scotland running low, Shetland Islands Council said it was having to use a salt/grit mix on more island roads to conserve its own ...Sunday Spill Special: Seafood Safety, Part 1
Deep-Sea News - 23 hours ago
Burrowing lobsters affected by the Braer spill (off the Shetland Islands in 1993) retained contaminants up to five years post-spill, versus lobster species ...Blueprint meeting timetable
Shetland News - 25 Nov 2010
Shetland Islands Council wants to close the tiny primary schools in Uyeasound, Burravoe, North Roe and Sandness in a bid to make savings from the isles' £42 ...Shipping minister agrees to tug talks
Shetland News - 23 Nov 2010
In a letter to Shetland Islands Council convener Sandy Cluness, Mr Penning has now accepted an invitation to visit Shetland to see first hand the importance ...
Early morning weather disruption
Shetland News - 9 Dec 2010
All main roads were blocked in different places first thing, prompting Shetland Islands Council to keep all schools closed for the day. ...Parents warn of wider schools threat
Shetland News - 25 Nov 2010
On 7 December Shetland islands Council's services committee will decide the future of Scalloway and Skerries secondary departments, though it will be up to ...Public can speak at Viking hearing
Shetland News - 2 Dec 2010
OBJECTORS and supporters of the controversial Viking Energy wind farm are to have an opportunity to address Shetland Islands Council on the issue. ...More success for threatened primary
Shetland News - 7 Dec 2010
Uyeasound primary school on Unst has just 11 pupils and has had to start a petition to fight off plans by Shetland Islands Council to close it next year to ...Knitwear: Dropped stitches
The Economist - 25 Nov 2010
MARY WILLIAMSON, an 85-year-old resident of Whalsay in the remote Shetland Islands, knows all about globalisation. She makes hand-knitted Fair Isle woollen ...When it snows on roads at the edge of the world
The Caledonian Mercury - Tom Morton - 5 Dec 2010
It's 6:55am, and Shetland Islands Council's roads foreman is pondering island driving conditions on a special local radio bulletin. ...
Misspending on snooping
Public Service - 30 Nov 2010
With more cameras on the Shetland Islands than in San Francisco's Police Department, councils alone are spending more public funds on CCTV than the GDP of ...New £14m tugs pass sea trials
Shetland Marine News - 2 Dec 2010
The original plan was to hand the vessels over to Shetland Islands Council in the spring and summer of this year, but problems with the steering and exhaust ...
Tom Morton joins the SIC
Shetland News - 24 Nov 2010
The 54 year old will spend three mornings a week over the next four months providing “advice, support and expertise” as part of Shetland Islands Council's ...
Kids in the Shetland Isles vote on what matters to them
CBBC Newsround - 29 Nov 2010
Well that's just what pupils at a school in the Shetland Islands got to do, when they were visited by the man who makes the decisions that affect kids. ...Shetland Aquaculture Firm Receives £300000 Backing from HIE
Scotland Food and Drink (press release) - 13 Dec 2010
The European Fisheries Fund and the Shetland Islands Council are also providing grant support towards the £3.7 million project. Since 2004, the Hjaltland ...Shetland's corruption
Shetland News - 24 Nov 2010
I see Arthur Tait is calling for an investigation into the corrupt relationship between Shetland Islands... Council, Shetland Charitable Trust and VikingHayley checks out wind farm debate in Shetland Isles
CBBC Newsround - 29 Nov 2010
Hayley went to the Shetland Islands in the north of Scotland, where there are plans to build the biggest wind farm in Europe. She spoke to local people and ...Norwegian Cruise Line announces largest European deployment in ...
Travel Daily News International - 3 days ago
... and Alesund, Norway; Lerwick, Shetland Islands; Thorshavn, Faroe Islands; Reykjavik, Iceland; Greenock (Glasgow), Scotland and Dublin, Ireland. ...HOT SPOTS
WalesOnline - Kathryn Williams - 26 Nov 2010
From Sinai in Egypt to West Fjords in Iceland and the Shetland Islands, all will become the places to be in 2011. Sinai – which is a step away from the ...In brief for 1 December 2010
Shetland News - 30 Nov 2010
A LEADING figure in Scottish local government finance has been drafted in to join Shetland Islands... Council's team of experts to help it raise its gameHjaltland Housing Association to try again to build 38 houses in ...
Shetland Times Online - Ryan Taylor - 24 Nov 2010
The association has lodged an application for 38 houses in the area with Shetland Islands Council's planning department. The brakes were put on a housing ...In brief for 6 December 2010
Shetland News - 5 Dec 2010
A MAJORITY of councillors have signed a Notice of Motion urging Shetland Islands Council to consider re-instating the winter fuel payment to people over 65. ...Waves didn't ruin local man's dream cruise
Blue Springs Examiner - Kelly Evenson - 6 days ago
7 after suffering damage in the 55 mph winds northeast of the South Shetland Islands... and about 500 miles from Ushuaia, Argentina. The rough weather not onlyIndependence man completes trek to all seven continents - Kansas City Star
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Oil and gas: Into the even deeper
The Economist - 25 Nov 2010
COMPARED with the flotilla of oil and gas platforms in the North Sea, the waters west of the Shetland Islands are virgin territory. ...The big lie
Shetland News - 23 Nov 2010
... government for an investigation in to the corrupt relationship between the Shetland Islands... Council, the Shetland Charitable Trust, and Viking Energy.Cruise ship left crippled after being battered by 30ft waves ...
Daily Mail - 11 Dec 2010
... was forced to declare an emergency earlier this week after it suffered engine damage in heavy seas north east of the South Shetland Islands. ...VIDEO: Cruise Ship Caught In Rough Seas - myfoxny.com
Vessel stranded in Antarctica with 160 passengers on board - Buenos Aires Herald
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Satirical boardgame challenges oil industry in run-up to Christmas
Ekklesia - 22 hours ago
... rig off the coast of Greenland; subsequently Greenpeace swimmers spent several days blocking a drilling ship off the coast of the Shetland Islands. ...It's now or never
Shetland News - 13 Dec 2010
Well folks, it's running out and Shetland Islands Council has been less than careful with its cash. So what's next? What's going to top up the money tin for ...Sack the lot!!!!
Shetland News - 2 Dec 2010
Imagine leaving the fate of our children's education in the hands of the 'Councillors' of the Shetland Islands Council. Look at their past 'wonderful ideas' ...Scottish island secures funding for super-fast broadband pilot
Top10.com - Dan Robinson - 25 Nov 2010
Marvin Smith, Telecoms Project Manager at Shetland Islands Council (SIC), commented: "Getting next-generation broadband into Fetlar will be technically ...FAMILY MEDIATION SHETLAND – PROJECT ADMINISTRATOR
Shetland Times Online - 26 Nov 2010
Family Mediation Shetland is managed within Shetland Islands CAB and although you will work solely within Family Mediation you will be a SICAB employee. ...CCTV BRITAIN: WHY ARE WE THE MOST SPIED ON COUNTRY IN THE WORLD?
Express.co.uk - Fergus Kelly - 3 Dec 2010
IT MAY be one of the most remote spots in Britain yet it's almost impossible to set foot in Lerwick, the capital of the Shetland Islands, ...Chronicling solstice in Saxon England
South County Independent - Doug Norris - 4 days ago
... parties that include the Allendale Tar Bar'l, the Stonehaven Fireball, the Comrie Flambeaux and the Up Helly Aa of the Shetland Islands, to name a few. ...Senior councillor dismisses talk of further round of junior high ...
Shetland Times Online - Neil Riddell - 2 Dec 2010
The report states: “Until now, Shetland Islands Council has been in a position to use reserves to support the generous provisions in the school estate ...Scottish Written Answer
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription) - 3 days ago
Michael Russell: Shetland Islands Council voted to close the secondary ... At that time, Scottish ministers will notify Shetland Islands Council of its ...REPEAT BUY PETROFAC (1490p) - 17th December 2010
IBTimes - Ed Woolfitt - 3 days ago
In October Petrofac won a contract worth in excess of £500m by Total E&P UK Ltd for the development of a gas processing plant on the Shetland Islands, ...Eight green awards handed out
Shetland News - 24 Nov 2010
The awards were sponsored by Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Scottish Natural Heritage, Shetland Islands Council, Royal Society for the Protection ...
Greenpeace's New Board Game
TIME (blog) - Eben Harrell - 3 days ago
... also occupied an exploratory drilling rig off the coast of Greenland and sent swimmers to block a drilling ship off the coast of the Shetland Islands. ...Tony Dixon G4CJC
Southgate Amateur Radio Club - 1 Dec 2010
There was lots of marvellous distant DX about, DT8A South Shetland Islands, VY0HL Nunavut Canada, RW0LZ Siberia?, FO8RZ Tahiti island, KL8DX Alaska to name ...Schools Return to classes likely for many Scottish youngsters
Scotsman - Emeline Martineau - 9 Dec 2010
Only Glasgow, Renfrewshire and Shetland Islands councils had closed all their schools. All pupils from Angus, Argyll and Bute, Dundee, Inverclyde, ...Round World Cruising is Twice as Nice with Princess Cruises
e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - 4 days ago
... 28 countries including maiden world cruise visits to Iceland's colourful capital Reykjavik, Halifax in Nova Scotia and Lerwick in the Shetland Islands. ...Sailor has plenty tales of the sea
Strathspey Herald - 1 Dec 2010
... and Muckle Flugga, a small rocky island north of Unst in the Shetland Islands often described as the northernmost point of the British Isles. ...WORLD BRIEFS
Newsday - 8 Dec 2010
... an emergency Tuesday, reporting it had suffered engine damage amid heavy seas and 55-mph winds when it was northeast of the South Shetland Islands. ...A cold, invigorating trip like no other
The Daily News of Newburyport - Catherine Rymsha - 6 days ago
... we stopped to interact with penguins, to kayak in the frigid cold waters and to plunge into the waters ourselves like penguins in the Shetland Islands. ...Fifteen long-service officers could be forced to retire
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Nichola Rutherford - 23 Nov 2010
Yesterday Shetland Islands Council's infrastructure committee agreed to tell its two members of the police board to resist plans to close the reception desk ...Scotland snowed under
UPI.com - 29 Nov 2010
All schools were closed in the Lothians, Fife, Dundee, the Shetland Islands and Perth-Kinross. Glasgow-Edinburgh train service was cut to twice an hour. ...Prestwick Airport takes in flights after bad weather closes other ...
Ayrshire Post - Cheryl Mcevoy - 2 Dec 2010
And on Monday, the airport took in four Eastern Airways flights from Norwich, Nottingham, Liverpool and Scatsta in the Shetland Islands, which were unable ...Landmark enterprise is alive and well
Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette - Paul Clifford - 6 days ago
... through partnerships with National Trust sites and tourist information centres, clients come from the Shetland Islands to the south coast of England. ...Around the world
Arizona Daily Star - 8 Dec 2010
... reporting it had suffered engine damage amid heavy seas and 55 mph winds when it was northeast of the Shetland Islands and about 500 miles from Ushuaia, ...King City couple returns home after stranded in Antarctic waters
The Salinas Californian - Kimber Solana - 6 days ago
7, reporting it had suffered engine damage amid heavy seas and 55 mph winds when it was northeast of the South Shetland Islands and about 500 miles from ...I won't let Anne run down Canvey on Weakest Link
Essex Echo - Max Orbach - 25 Nov 2010
... against someone from the Isle of Man and the Shetland Islands in a one-off special of the quiz show which will be screened shortly before Christmas. ...At-a-glance School closures in Scotland by region
Scotsman - 9 Dec 2010
... There are no confirmed school closures in Moray. Twelve schools are closed in the Orkney Islands. All schools in the Shetland Islands are closed.30% of new Brits dont know where Liverpool is on a map
Prfire (press release) - George Sandison - 29 Nov 2010
Nearly 40% thought the Angel of the North was near Leeds, Manchester or Birmingham, and 20% thought the Shetland Islands were the Channel Islands. ...IOTA News
Southgate Amateur Radio Club - 27 Nov 2010
(Update) Barring any weather or ferry problems, Chris, GM3WOJ/ZL1CT, departs Wednesday morning, November 24th, for the Shetland Islands (GM) where he will ...Sensis WAM Now Certified for Air Traffic Control in the North Sea
PR-USA.net (press release) - 3 days ago
... the UK oil and gas industry along the length of the UK's east coast, from East Anglia in the south to beyond the Shetland Islands in the north. ...True Grit – Shelterstore meets demand for Winter Products
PRLog.Org (press release) - 8 Dec 2010
... three weeks to corporates, facilities management companies and local authorities across the UK, from as far afield as London to the Shetland Islands. ...The funniest Scot – is Australian
Chortle - 3 Dec 2010
Campbell, who won £1500, has spent several years living north of the border, and his set covered the time he spent living in the Shetland Islands. ...Waves of Terror in the Drake Passage
AOL News - 6 days ago
... II struggles in high seas with 165 passengers and crew members aboard in the southern Drake Passage, just north of the Shetland Islands, on Tuesday. ...
Using leaks to prevent spills?
Greenpeace UK (blog) - 10 Dec 2010
... showed the company admitting that an oil spill at their drill site near the Shetland Islands could spread as far as Greenland and the Norfolk coast. ...At-a-glance School closures in Scotland by region
Scotsman - 1 Dec 2010
In the Shetland Islands, seven schools have so far been closed. They are Aith Junior High along with the primaries at Sandness, Happyhansel, Skeld, ...Festival Watch: Vikings @ Up Helly Aa
The Skinny - Paul Mitchell - 3 Dec 2010
Nightly ferries leave direct to the Shetland Islands from Aberdeen and there are flights to Sumbergh Airport from Edinburgh and Glasgow on a regular basis. ...Schools struggle to reopen in snowbound areas
stv.tv - Cara Sulieman - 3 Dec 2010
All schools and nurseries are open in East Ayrshire, East Dunbartonshire, East Renfrewshire, North Ayrshire, Orkney, Shetland Islands, South Ayrshire, ...
The Pedigree, Knitted In
New York Times - David Colman - 1 Dec 2010
... obscure Fair Isle, one of the most isolated of the Shetland Islands, known for a knitting style bearing colorful folk motifs and bold geometric designs. ...The Comedy DVD Round-Up
Den Of Geek - 10 Dec 2010
Credit, too, for the interesting behind-the-scenes tour documentary, which finds Bailey hunting for a missing minibus in the Shetland Islands. ...A Fish's Tale: Depletion, Quotas and Discarding
Wall Street Journal - Bruce Palling - 2 Dec 2010
Victor Laureasoa, a fisherman from the Shetland Islands off the coast of Scotland who attended the rally, agreed that the discard policy is nonsensical. ...
In brief for 9 December 2010
Shetland News - 8 Dec 2010
SHETLAND Islands Council might not be able to fulfil its legal obligations ... SHETLAND Islands... Council will fail to identify almost £10 million in savingsBill Bailey: comedy, strange musical instruments, supermarket ...
Den Of Geek - Simon Brew - 7 Dec 2010
I love the little documentary you put on the disc and the way you talk about playing the Shetland Islands. There seemed to be as much a thrill in surprising ...
Scottish Parliament - Health and Sport Committee
DeHavilland (press release) (subscription) - 30 Nov 2010
Max Barnett (Shetland Islands Council): We very much believe that people have individual needs; indeed, any services that we supply through the council or ...Total Pushes Ahead With West Franklin Development in North Sea
Bloomberg - Tara Patel - 30 Nov 2010
Total said in March it would spend 2.5 billion pounds ($3.9 billion) to develop the Laggan/Tormore natural-gas fields off the Shetland Islands, opening up a ...Northern Trust wins Shetland mandate
Asset Servicing Times - 3 Dec 2010
Northern Trust has been appointed to provide global custody services to USD65 million in council assets for the Shetland Islands Council. ...
NTRSSublimely indifferent
The Australian - james Bradley - 30 Nov 2010
... drowning in some distant ocean cannot compete with emotive pictures of oil-covered seabirds off the Shetland Islands or polluted coastlines off Alaska. ...White Continent Antarctica
Moneylife Personal Finance Magazine - 3 Dec 2010
Our exploration of the Antarctica Peninsula and sub-Antarctica South Shetland Islands over the next five days revealed new wonders. ...Travel warning as snow hits north
BBC News - 3 days ago
The closures included all 23 schools in the Orkney Islands plus Orkney college and all 34 schools in the Shetland Islands. Only one school in Aberdeenshire ...Scottish News: North of Scotland hit hard as Big Freeze bites again - Scottish Daily Record
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Scottish Comedian of the Year: meet the finalists
stv.tv - Graham Fraser - 3 Dec 2010
The Australian-born Scot lived in the Shetland Islands for the first two years of his comedy career, meaning 14-hour boat ride and drive to gigs - a feat he ...
SIC housing chief to retire early
Shetland News - 9 Dec 2010
Shetland Islands Council's head of housing Chris Medley has been granted early retirement and will leave his job at the end of January 2011. ...Construction survey shows completion date delays; projects on hold
Oil & Gas Journal - Leena Koottungal - 6 Dec 2010
Total E&P UK Ltd. let a £500 million contract to Petrofac, London, to develop a gas processing plant on the Shetland Islands (OGJ Online, Oct. 27, 2010). ...
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