THE SUMBURGH based Sikorsky S-92 search and rescue helicopters have just completed their 1,000th mission since Bristow Helicopters took over the coastguard search and rescue contract from Canadian ...

Also performing at both events will be Catriona Price, a Scottish violinist, composer and artistic director who is a member of acts like Fara and Twelfth Day. El Guapo is a young Argentine band that ...

AN ESTONIAN maritime expedition arrived in Lerwick on Wednesday on one of its first ports of call on a trip to celebrate the discovery of Antarctica 200 years ago. The 24-metre-long yacht Admiral ...

WITH energy costs set to stay high for the foreseeable future, one way of combatting Shetland’s high levels of fuel poverty is to ‘build better’ houses, according to local architect Allen Duncan. And ...

A MAN from Lerwick who admitted behaving in an abusive manner towards two former partners has been placed under a community payback order and told to pay £2,000 in compensation. Michael Noblett, of ...

THE CREW of the Aith lifeboat has been awarded special recognition for its efforts during a rescue operation in autumn of 2021 that lasted over 20 hours at sea. The lifeboat was called out early on ...

THE COASTGUARD rescue helicopter has seen its call-outs as an air ambulance in Shetland more than double in the space of five years. The Sumburgh search and rescue team were called to locations ...

A FAMILY firm has lost a legal challenge against the Scottish Government’s £370 million Northern Isles lifeline ferry tendering process. Orkney based Pentland Ferries raised a judicial review of the ...

A TEENAGER who downloaded indecent images and videos of children has had his sentence deferred for background reports.