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Eighty jobs to go at terminal
Sullom Voe Terminal general manager Craig Lennox said the cuts represent one fifth of EnQuest’s headcount on site
Hotel discussions ongoing with Premier Inn
Sella Ness owner says the facility is ‘for the overall benefit of the Shetland economy’.
The owner of the accommodation block wants to keep the facility open until at least 2026.
Dales Voe in Lerwick is a preferred location for decommissioning.
Lerwick Port Authority and Ocean Kinetics have been granted shares in a £2.5 million cash award as part of the third round of a Scottish Government fund.
Shetland changed forever exactly 40 years ago this Sunday.
Scalloway introduces humane fish slaughter.
A HANDFUL of jobs are set to be lost in Scalloway as a result of Norwegian salmon feed producer Skretting closing down its UK production by April 2019.
The loss-making restaurant closed on Saturday unable to respond to new local competition.
THE LERWICK Co-op supermarket on Holmsgarth Road has upped its game following a £1.5 million overhaul.
HAY’s Dock Cafe Restaurant in Lerwick has closed with the loss of five jobs after facing “very challenging trading conditions”.
The team behind Shetland Reel gin want to produce whisky in Unst.
ABOUT 110 delegates turned up to hear that the future for large scale renewables in the isles is facing a critical 12 months – but if contracts are secured there will be big business for local suppliers.
LOCAL company Thulecraft is investing almost three quarters of million pounds over three years into expanding and upgrading its box plant at Lerwick’s Blackhill industrial estate.
A NEW fish processing business opened in Lerwick on Wednesday in a venture that is planned to incorporate a retail shop by the end of the year.
SHETLAND Islands Council has given the green light to implementing a refreshed economic development strategy which aims to see 250 new private sector jobs created in the isles over the next four years.
THE NATIONAL Farmers’ Union is holding a roadshow in Lerwick on 15 November to gauge members’ views on a new agriculture policy for Scotland in the face of an “unpredictable future”.
HAVE you ever found yourself wondering what’s inside that white minibus parked at Lerwick’s Lochside right next to the new emergency landing site?
AN AMBITIOUS tourism strategy has been launched for Shetland that aims to bring an extra £10 million into the sector over the next five years.
The salmon company reported a loss in the third quarter of 2018.
SCALLOWAY’s ‘new’ interim fish market is now operational ahead of Shetland Islands Council (SIC) awarding a £5.6 million contract to demolish the old market and build a new state of the art facility at Blacksness Pier.
A TIDAL energy project in Bluemull Sound has won a European Union award.
FISHING leaders have welcomed a new fisheries bill which the UK Government says will bring more powers to Scotland after Brexit.
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