MONDAY’S additional one-off bank holiday to mark the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II is likely to have cost Shetland Islands Council in the region of £90,000. While most council services were closed on Monday some essential services, such as social care, were required to.
LOCAL engineering firm Malakoff has joined the ever-growing list of sponsors for next summer’s Tall Ships event in Lerwick. The company will provide health and safety services and environmental management for the four-day event on an “in-kind” basis as one of the Lerwick.
KNITTING tuition in Shetland’s primary schools is set to get underway once again after the summer holidays following a two-year break due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The ShetlandPeerieMakkers project aims to keep the skills and tradition of hand knitting alive by offering.