A RECENT lack of movement at the Viking wind farm has been blamed on the Shetland HVDC cable link being taken out of service. SSEN said the cable, which links Shetland to the mainland energy network, was “temporarily” taken offline between Monday 27 April and Saturday 3 May. It said …

In today’s (Friday, 9th May) edition of The Shetland Times: • Crunch talks today over deepening Royal Mail issues; • MUSIC: Full round of Folk Festival pictures and reviews; • EXCLUSIVE: Naturalist Bobby Tulloch’s work released in audiobook form; • POLITICS: Hannah Mary Goodlad’s vision as SNP candidate for Scottish …

Meghan Markle and Prince Harry just can’t quit making headlines. But before Harry’s bombshell BBC interview last week threatened to open old wounds with the Royal Family, Meghan’s appearance on her friend Jamie Kern Lima’s podcast was making noise for other reasons. Indeed, one major point of intrigue from the …

This week King Charles was joined by senior members of the royal family including the Prince and Princess of Wales as they paid tribute to those who lost their lives in WWII and the veterans who are still around to share their stories of bravery. But sadly the commemorative events …

Anne, who was accompanied on the trip by her husband Vice Admiral Sir Tim Laurence, attended a parade at St Peter Port seafront and gave a reading during a service at Town Church. The Princess Royal joined local dignitaries for events on Guernsey (Aaron Chown/PA) The parish church holds the …

ROYAL Mail has been accused of ignoring a growing crisis in Shetland, with postal staff leaving “in droves” due to low pay and extremely pressured working conditions. A quarter of postie jobs in Shetland are vacant, with four workers quitting in April alone. That has meant some remaining staff are …

Plans to transform a historic listed building in Bath into a Wetherspoons pub have been given the go ahead by the council. The chain already has the King of Wessex on James Street West and will add a second Bath venue in the former Revolution on George Street. The new …

The King has a ‘very nice relationship’ with his granddaughter Princess Charlotte, a royal expert has suggested. Charles, 76, has been visiting Windsor Castle more, which is close to where Prince William, Kate and their three children now live at Adelaide Cottage, according to PEOPLE magazine. Speaking to the publication, royal author …

Portsmouth-based HMS Tyne was deployed as part of a Nato operation to keep a watch on the kilo-class submarine Krasnodar as it made its surfaced journey back to Russia from the eastern Mediterranean. It is the latest deployment of a UK warship to follow Russian vessels through the Channel, with …

FOOTBALL fans will pay crazy money to get their hands on prized memorabilia worn by their favourite heroes over the years. But one Celtic fan might be wishing tight now that they had gone back in time and stopped themselves from purchasing a match-worn shirt from 1953 after he revealed …