Lerwick, United Kingdom News

TWO British computer hackers have admitted they were behind cyber attacks on the websites of the UK's Serious Organised Crime Squad, the CIA and the National Health Service.

The SIC estimates it would save around A 170,000 a year by shutting Voe's small primary school and Skerries' three-pupil secondary department.

The fiddles were out and the tunes in the bar got started pretty much the minute the Shetland ferry left Aberdeen last Wednesday night, the 12-hour voyage serving as a time-honoured preamble to the islands' world-famous annual four-day orgy of music-making. By the time we were half-way to Lerwick, cultural and stylistic boundaries were already a ... (more)

"You're in for a treat." That was the prediction from the bar staff at the Legion in Lerwick who'd heard the sound check ahead of last night's concert.

Thursday night's opener at Lerwick's Legion contained highlights aplenty during a five-act, four-hour concert where the standard of musicianship seldom fell below outstanding.

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.