SHETLAND Charitable Trust (SCT) has opened up two grant funds to local community groups this week. The trust is offering its long-running small grant scheme with awards of up to £5,000 and, for its second year, the innovation grant scheme has grants up to £3,000 for groups that fancy trying …
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SHETLAND’S Pride event organisers have urged politicians to stop using the LGBTIA+ community as “political pawns” in a strong joint statement. Twenty-three Pride organisers across Scotland have put their name to the statement ahead of the International Day against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia tomorrow (Saturday). They have said they are …
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SHETLAND Islands Council is “doing as much as it can” regarding the threat of cyber attacks – with a warning made that the local authority “cannot be complacent”. The topic was raised at a meeting of the council’s audit committee on Monday morning amid a number of cyber attacks in …
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Artist Ron Sandford.Photo: Jane Moncrieff Artist Ron Sandford was born in Greenock in 1937. His talent and curiosity for life, place and work has taken him all over the world. He moved to Cullivoe, Yell, with his family in 2002. From there he continued to produce a remarkable body of …
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PLAYERS from across the isles came to compete for the title of Shetland boccia champion on Sunday (20 October) at the Clickimin. Boccia is a paralympic sport in which athletes throw, kick or use a ramp to propel a ball onto the court with the aim of getting closest to …
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THE BBC has confirmed that the next series of crime drama Shetland will air in the coming weeks. The first episode of series nine will be shown on BBC One at 9pm on Wednesday 6 November. The series will be led again by Ruth Calder (Ashley Jensen) and ‘Tosh’ (Alison …
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BOTH of Shetland’s senior rugby teams saw their Saturday afternoon matches called off after their opponents could not field teams. Peterhead Women’s team had been due to travel north to face Valkyries at the Clickimin at 12pm, before the men’s team faced Deeside on the same surface two hours later. …
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THE LAST run on the Bluemull Sound ferry route will be at 7.05pm tonight after today’s incident aboard the Bigga. The Geira is currently operating to a Saturday timetable, with bookings suspended, after a cement mixer toppled over and damaged several vehicles at around 7.30am this morning. No-one was injured …
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One in 13 people across the UK are currently infected with Covid, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). The latest figures mean that some 4.9million people across the UK have coronavirus at the moment – the highest number seen since ONS began collecting data. This week’s …
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Royal Mail today reveals the top ten areas where shoppers made the most online purchases over the course of Black Friday weekend this year. Savvy shoppers in Shetland Islands top the list of the UK’s top buyers in the biggest cyber shopping event of the year, followed by Kirkwall, Hebrides, …
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