Shetland Islands County, Scotland News

A Loganair Saab 340B on behalf of Flybe, registration G-LGNF performing flight BE-6774 from Aberdeen,SC to Shetland Islands,SC with 17 passengers and 3 crew, was enroute near Kirkwall,SC when a problem with the aft cargo door caused the loss of cabin pressure.

Global oil and gas company BP is employing a combined solution utilizing radio frequency identification and GPS technologies to track every component that it ships from its European warehouses to South Korea, as part of a $10 billion project to build a new offshore oil platform for use in the North Sea.

Islanders once more turned out in their droves to see over a dozen visiting acts fiddling, strumming, picking and singing their way through 24 concerts over four days at the Shetland Folk Festival.

Shetland Islands Council would not be facing any school closures or cuts to its ferries budget if it hadn't squandered tens of millions of pounds from its oil reserves since 2000.

We have a one bedroom, two person, single storey, semi-detached Sheltered house available to rent.

Plymouth adventurer Peter Goss has announced plans to attempt a crossing from Scotland to Norway by sea kayak this summer.

Scotland comes to Everett May 5 as the Northwest Scottish Fiddlers, based out of Edmonds, performs at 2 p.m., at the main Everett Public Library auditorium, downtown Everett.

Some critics have compared J. M. Ledgard's novels to the writings of W. G. Sebald, Italo Calvino, and J. M. Coetzee.

The SIC will this week renew diplomatic ties with Faroe - partly in the hope of getting Smyril Line ferry the NorrA na to stop off in the isles again.

Shetland is once again attracting positive attention from the world of tourism, this time for the quality of its sunrises.

When Gary Irvine signed up to serve as a soldier in the Territorial Army, he would not have believed his new-found hobby would last for almost 30 years.

Useful numbers: Islesburgh Community Centre - 01595 745100; Shetland Amenity Trust - 01595 694688; Shetland Arts - 01595 743843; Shetland Box Office - or 01595 745555; Shetland Museum & Archives - 01595 695057.

AN offshore oil rig platform, which braved the rough North Seas for more than 20 years, has been given a A 250,000 new lease of life at a North-East port.

Work on the construction phase at Total's Shetland Gas Plant is in full swing, with around 800 men on site and more arriving all the time.