AN AMBITIOUS ten-year research and development programme to help the mussel farming industry in Shetland and throughout the Highlands and Islands expand has been submitted to the UK Government for approval. The £4.4 million ShellVolution project is one of four initiatives that.
In the far north of the United Kingdom, where the wind blows and the sea rages, the islands of Orkney and Shetland have long relied on oil and gas for prosperit