Closing Date: Wednesday 29 February 2012 Lunnasting School Lunnasting School is located in the village of Vidlin on the northeast side of the Shetland’s Mainland. There are 2 ferry terminals with ferries going to the islands of Whalsay and Out Skerries. Lunnasting is a picturesque part of Shetland where the modern world does not dominate the landscapes. Several areas of trees mean it is a rewarding area for...
Jobs30 January 2012 Last updated at 12:37 Each ferry will be able to accommodate 150 passengers and 23 cars Construction work on two pioneering battery-powered ferries is under way, with the cutting of the first steel at the Ferguson shipyard in Port Glasgow. The 900-tonne ships are said to be the world's first sea-going roll-on roll-off diesel-electric hybrid ferries. They will be owned by Caledonian Maritime Assets (CMAL) and operated by CalMac Ferries, which runs ...
News18 January 2012 Last updated at 01:22 A race at Cape Wrath in Sutherland is among those on the new app Sixteen of 500 races on a new mobile phone application about world-wide ultimate running events are in Scotland. The app is a digital version of the book World's Ultimate Running Races. Races for the book and app were compiled by Stirling-based champion mountain runner Angela Mudge. The Scottish races featured include the Cape Wrath Challenge in Sutherland and the Simmer Dim Half Marathon on Shetland. The Ben Kenneth Mountain Race on South Uist is also on the app, which has been launched by
NewsDuring November each year, ‘Movember’ is responsible for the sprouting of moustaches on thousands of men’s faces in the UK and around the world. Men start the beginning of the month clean-shaven, and for the rest of the month, groom their moustaches in return for sponsorship. They become walking, talking billboards for the 30 days of November and, through their actions and words, raise...
NewsNorthton Heritage Trust, based at the Seallam! Visitor Centre in South Harris, have been awarded a grant of £54,000 towards an important new genealogical project which will safeguard the life’s work of Bill Lawson and help the Trust to become sustainable in the longer term. The funding towards a 3-year project starting this summer comes from Highlands and Islands Enterprise and LEADER Innse Gall. Over his lifetime, Bill Lawson, who is internationally acclaimed for his work on the genealogy of the Outer Hebrides, has collected information from official records, other documents, and oral history, about every family resident in the Western Isles over the past 250 years – some 225,000 people. This includes information on over 20,000 emigrants from the islands to all parts of the world, including records of their family history after emigration. The centrepiece of this unique database is some 9,000 hand-written family trees. The data was donated by ...
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