THE HILLSWICK GP practice is to stop providing its own out of hours cover - becoming the last Shetland mainland health centre to do so. The practice will be.
LIVING Lerwick has donated more than £3,300 to the town’s RNLI station after another successful Santa’s grotto fundraising effort at Christmas. A record 361 bairns visited the grotto during the festive period, raising money for the lifeboat charity. Living Lerwick was.
COUNCILLORS have agreed to move the new Brae school project to the next phase - a full business case. It is estimated that the cost to reach the full business case stage is £4.5 million. The decision was made at a three-hour meeting of the full Shetland Islands Council (SIC) on.
THE LEADER of Shetland Islands Council (SIC) says she is not surprised to hear that some local authorities are considering increasing council tax despite the Scottish Government committing to a freeze in the next financial year. Whilst Emma Macdonald reiterated that the SIC has.
THERE appears to be a “growing apathy” towards local democracy, Shetland Islands Council has said in a response to a Scottish Government consultation. The council said it feels local government is reaching a “critical point” as election candidate numbers continue to.