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FORMER Brae GP Dr Paul Scott has been struck off the medical register after being found guilty of several counts of serious ...
IT IS estimated that nearly £300,000 has been saved in travel costs so far by having an MRI scanner located in Shetland.
NHS SHETLAND has confirmed one of its clinicians is earning around £375,000 a year – making them one of the highest paid public sector employees in Scotland. The figure was revealed in a country-wide ...
SHETLAND Islands Council (SIC) leader Emma Macdonald has been selected as the Liberal Democrat candidate for Shetland in the ...
A MUSICIAN who committed an “utterly disgraceful” sexual assault on a woman in the middle of a busy Lerwick pub has been ...
THE SHETLAND gas plant looks set to be unaffected by news of financial difficulties within energy company Prax - the firm ...
A LERWICK man found growing cannabis in his home has had his sentence deferred for reports. Police discovered 15 plants in ...
“The challenge for us is; do we provide a service or do we not? “The consequences for the community of not providing a ...
A FORMER solicitor who embezzled almost £2,000 from the Walls swimming pool committee and was caught drink-driving twice in five days has been ...
The amount of power we generate is the equivalent to just one of the turbines at the Viking Wind Farm on mainland Shetland, which has 103 turbines and is run by SSE Renewables. But the amount of ...
One councillor says he is ‘irked’ by the language used on the redesigned NorthLink website around cabins on longer sailings ...
ALMOST ONE in six voters in the Northern Isles would cast their vote for Reform UK, a YouGov projection shows. The party is in line to become the second largest force in the isles, despite not having ...