FIRE FIGHTERS attended to reports of a kitchen fire in the Nordalea care home in Unst this morning (Tuesday). One appliance from the local station in Unst was sent to the location but the fire was extinguished prior to the crew's arrival. A spokesperson for care home operator.
THE NATIONAL Trust for Scotland has appointed a project development manager to steer the next phase of its Halligarth project in Unst over the next 18 months. Shetland-based construction specialist Stewart Douglas will take on the role with the charity, working with the local.
“IT’S something I’ve always wanted to do since I was little boy,” this year’s Norik Up Helly Aa guizer jarl Michael Thomson says - and today (Saturday) is the big day. The 30-year-old’s connection to Shetland’s most northerly fire festival is pretty notable, having.
THE FIRST of Unst’s two fire festivals kicked off this morning (Friday) as guizer jarl Leslie Stickle finally got his turn to lead the Uyeasound Up Helly Aa. At 70 years old, he believes he may be one of the oldest guizer jarls. But age is just a number, and the Unst man is.
to get to our space port is a huge impact on our carbon emissions, and just the speed and flexibility of being able to come here. i mean, if the number of launches that we want to be doing in a few years time means that we re going to have to be using all the different rockets that are available to us. so the more that there are available, the better, and the closer they are to home, even better. the aim is to have several sites in the uk to launch rockets from, not just cornwall. and one is in an unlikely place in one of the most remote parts of the country. here in unst, one of the shetland islands, where sheep outnumber people and shetland ponies look on. this is the saxavord spaceport, which should see the uk s first ever vertical rocket launch. i think the first response from the locals was probably maybe it was an april fool or something like that.