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The Shetland News is a news website serving the islands of Shetland, Scotland. Previously, The Shetland News was a weekly newspaper published between 1885 and 1963. The website, published by an unrelated company (Zetnews Limited), was launched in 1995, on the idea of IT entrepreneur Graeme Storey.
In 2001, aged 58, he left Suffolk on a sailing trip. Media reports used the "Captain Calamity" epithet when Hill caused five lifeboat launches and two rescue helicopter call-outs during a failed attempt to single-handedly circumnavigate Britain in a "15-foot (4.6 m) dinghy" during 2001. [1]
Shetland (until 1975 spelled Zetland), also called the Shetland Islands, is an archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands, and Norway.It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom.
According to Shetland News, this meant that both the wind farm and the HVDC Connection "are likely to go ahead". [24] Construction works started in September 2020 and the farm is due to be operational by 2024. [25] All 103 turbines were installed by August 2023. In May 2024, transmission work stopped due to a peat slide. [26]
For much of its broadcast day, BBC Radio Shetland rebroadcasts the output of BBC Radio Scotland.It opts out of this network for three regular slots: Good Evening Shetland, a 30-minute local news and magazine programme which includes current affairs, weather, fishing reports and public debate, broadcast Mon-Fri;
Wills is chiefly famous for his involvement in a notable lawsuit in 1996 [1] brought against him as publisher of The Shetland News website. [2] The plaintiff in the case, The Shetland Times, accused Wills' company, Zetnews Ltd., of infringing their copyright by using hyperlinks which bypassed their main webpage.
Up Helly Aa (/ ˌ ʌ p h ɛ l i ˈ ɑː / UP-hel-ee-AH; [1] [2] literally "Up Holy [Day] All") is a type of fire festival held annually from January to March in various communities in Shetland, Scotland, to mark the end of the Yule season.
The Shetland Times is a weekly newspaper in Shetland, published on Fridays and based in Lerwick, the main town in the Shetland Islands.. The newspaper is owned by The Shetland Times Ltd, a company which also operates a publishing arm, a bookshop and a printing company.