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NHS struggling to meet 9% spending cuts

20 February 2016

An aerial view of Symbister harbour - Photo: Ivan Reid

Plans for new Whalsay fish factory in doubt

20 February 2016

Underwater images show the fishing boat Majestic lying right beside BP's gas pipeline north west of Yell.

Sunken creel boat metres from gas pipeline

19 February 2016

Ferry sailings cancelled

20 February 2016

Travel disruption likely

19 February 2016

Shona Main: 'it irked me that she hasn’t received the acclaim that she deserves'

Memories of great filmmaker brought to life

19 February 2016

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Barred again

18 February 2016

A family affair. Guider Jarl James Titcomb (Thorir Hund) with his father Peter, daughter Eloise and son Darryl on a sunnier day earlier in the week preparing for the big day. Photo Gordon Stove

Independent minded jarl leads Nort fire fest

19 February 2016

Violent drinker

18 February 2016

Expensive emergency stop

18 February 2016

A Burra Bear knitted by Wendy Inkster in Children in Need colours for last year's auction. Photo BBC Radio Shetland

Children in Need grant

18 February 2016

Grieg Seafood produced 16,370 tonnes of fish in 2015

Jobs go at Shetland’s biggest salmon firm

18 February 2016

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Jail for harassing ex-partner

18 February 2016

The Clickimin Leisure Centre where much of Shetland's valuable sporting activity takes place. Photo John Coutts

Leisure’s economic payback

18 February 2016

40 months for Devon drug dealer

18 February 2016

Weather warning

18 February 2016

Extra Hank Williams tribute show

18 February 2016

Cooper wins support for new Toft pier

17 February 2016

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Post-beanfeast assault

17 February 2016

Fraudulent benefit claims

17 February 2016

The Shetland fiddlers are having a great time on their trip to Australia and New Zealand. Photo courtesy of Hjaltibonhoga

Fiddlers entertain the masses down under

17 February 2016

Following lengthy delays to CAP payments, Shetland MSP Tavish Scott is hopeful Audit Scotland will "leave no stone unturned" in finding out what went wrong.

Auditors to examine crofter payment ‘fiasco’

17 February 2016

The Shetland Gas Plant - Photo: Total

Gas plant shut down

17 February 2016

Shetland’s Got Talent is back

17 February 2016

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NHS Shetland director of public health Sarah Taylor.

NHS’s public health director set to depart

16 February 2016

Consistently unreliable

16 February 2016

Broadband update

16 February 2016

Smokescreen arguments

16 February 2016

Two in court accused of heroin supply

15 February 2016

There was a large queue waiting as Sharon Deyell cut the ribbon to officially open this year's Swapshop.

Swapshop success

15 February 2016

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Charged with drug supply

15 February 2016

Scottish Ensemble build-up to summer residency

15 February 2016

Schoolboy error

15 February 2016

Photographer and lifeboat volunteer Ian Leask who has died at the weekend - Photo: Scott Goudie

Tributes for highly respected lifeboat volunteer

15 February 2016

The future of the Herakles beyond the end of March remains uncertain.

MP wants answers from MCA over emergency tugs

15 February 2016

Gales set to return

15 February 2016

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Rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead has come under heavy fire for the Scottish government's failure to deliver farm payments anywhere near on time.

Crofters offered loans instead of subsidies

12 February 2016

Uyeasound Guizer Jarl Gunnlaug Wirmtongue (Christopher Ritch) with his son Finn and daughter Merrin

Poetry and art grace Uyeasound fire fest

12 February 2016

No trust in mental health service

12 February 2016

Linga’s back

12 February 2016

Leask denies cultivating cannabis

12 February 2016

An image from the Healthy Shetland website saying there is always support available.

Mental health service let patients down

11 February 2016

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John Finnie MSP.

Green campaign lights up

11 February 2016

An architect's drawing of the proposed Grantfield development.

Rejuvenating Grantfield

11 February 2016

Alfie has been missing from Quarff since last October.

Alarming leap in vanishing cats

11 February 2016

Biggest ever schools music fest

11 February 2016

Tavish Scott (left) and Liam McArthur at Loganair's Glasgow spares hub on Wednesday.

MSPs visit Loganair spares hub

11 February 2016

Power off out west

11 February 2016

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