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  1. Is Yes Shetland the dozen people who met in Isleburgh earlier in the year? Not sure a dozen signatures is going to swing the petition one way or the other!
  2. Maybe this could be a step in the right direction! Let's see the Town Hall in the paper for sale next week with preference given to anyone willing to carry on the previous occupants business!
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    Road Works

    I just drove past the esplanade today. First day the new layout has been open. Buses stopped on the narrowed road waiting to get into the shortened bus stop outside Harbour House holding up the traffic behind. Cars trying to overtake the buses to get moving. Cruise Liner at the pier with many people trying to cross the road through it all. These 'improvements' don't seem to have got off to a good start. Or maybe I just hit it at a bad time.
  4. Good luck to them if they go ahead. Can't help thinking it's gonna be pretty exposed at times in winter and that they're missing a trick in not providing outdoor seating and kids play areas for all the nice days we get, but probably not enough room on that site.
  5. The big difference between the P&O days and now is that under the terms of the contract Northlink and now Serco Northlink get fined for a late sailing which wasn't the case with P&O. As unlinkedstudent pointed out there are a lot of procedures to go through to secure and prepare the ship for sea. This was publicised during the Hamnavoe's breakdown when they were fined for every day until the ship was back in service. Maybe there is some room for flexibility, I don't know, but they are going to have to have a cut off point and stick to it or risk being fined.
  6. Should sidelights not only be used if you are parked in a poorly lit area. I don't think they should ever be used on their own while moving.
  7. Norman Tebbit's quote is typical of the hysterical nonsense being spouted by the 'anti' brigade who have no real arguements to back up their bigotry. Incest laws are in place to protect against his scenario. He also said we could end up having a Lesbian Queen and an heir to the throne concieved by artificial insemination. If he was to try using some brain cells he would realise that this can already happen. He really should hang up his boots if this is the best he can come up with.
  8. So presumably every Local Authority in the UK will mirror our threefold increase?
  9. SIBC news is reporting that two "Children" have been identified as being responsible for the damage.
  10. I'm no expert, but I believe the figure of £26 000 is the proposed cap on the total amount of benefits which any family can claim per year which is supposedly equal to the average family wage.
  11. Did you receive any housing benefit to assist you in paying your mortgage? Also MIRAS (tax relief on mortgage interest paid) was abolished by the totally incompetent Gordon Brown, the worst Chancellor of the Exchequer in history, in 2000. No. Never received any form of benefit in my life other than child benefit, and that went to my wife! I thought MIRAS was abolished before that. I did get it for a short period, but it didn't seem to be for long.
  12. Well I've owned three houses over that time and the only time I've had to pay anyone for work was when I replaced all the windows in my first house. All the other work I've done myself. Maybe I've been lucky with the condition of houses, but I would still maintain that over a lifetime, ownership will work out cheaper than renting. That of course is assuming you compare similar similar sized properties. I took out a mortgage over 25 years but you could be renting a house for 60 years or longer.
  13. All this seems to be taking for granted that social housing is subsidised or cheap rents, but is that really the case? Firstly is it not the case that housing and rental money is ring fenced. i.e. that the money received in rent can only be used for housing and that housing has to be paid for through rental income only. If that is the case then it can hardly be considered as being subsidised. Then compare a situation of lifelong rental versus lifelong home ownership. Rents will increase year on year while a mortgage will remain constant other than interest rate variations and will eventually stop when you will pay nothing. I own my home and after 20 years of paying a mortgage, I presently pay less than 2/3 of the current rent on a similar council house. By my reckoning, even if you factor in the cost of maintenance and insurance, it is cheaper in the long term to buy a property than rent a council property and at the end of the day you own a valuable asset. For people starting out trying to get on the housing ladder, then social housing will be cheaper at that point in their lives than home ownership, but subsidised housing for life? I can't see how it is.
  14. Oh dear! That was painful! Imagine the stushie if they had done that in Shetland!
  15. Not sure what you mean by 'drink driving' medicals, but GP's at the Lerwick Health centre certainly used to do private medicals out of hours and there's Shetland Medical Services (Dr Freshwater) at the Hillhead in Lerwick.
  16. Weel, I wis boarn an brought up in Lerrick and dat's how I say it! Joost lik dey sed it on da telly!
  17. The caravan site at Annesbrae and I think at the Jubilee as well were evacuated and badly damaged in the New Years morning storm in the early nineties. Many caravans were blown over or torn apart that morning. They were removed shortly after that. Maybe not the greatest long term solution in Shetland.
  18. It's taken me a long time to pick myself up off the floor helpless with laughter at this one! Free Thinking! You are expecting everyone to take the word of a book of folklore and myth, written 2 millenia ago, hopelessly outdated and hopelessly mistranslated over that time, seriously? You cut and paste text off the internet from religious fanatics and you reckon you are free thinking? And what's an even bigger laugh is that you seem to think we should take you seriously! Quick word of advice. Now may not be the best time to promote the churches thoughts on this. Let's hope the conclave in the vatican this week does not start with the words, "let he who is without sin"! The doors won't be wide enough for the mass exodus!
  19. I've just caught up with Shetlink so just read through this. Gobsmacked doesn't come close to describing that letter. Maybe he wants us all to live like Priests! Oh, wait!
  20. Didn't see it mentioned on Mr Tait's naughty list so it must be OK.
  21. Theres another thread covering this here, although it's not really well named so easy to miss.
  22. You really don't have a clue what your talking about here, do you?
  23. I'm not sure you understood me. How can the Committee or anybody else stop the local press from publishing what they want? It's common knowledge after all, you can hardly expect the press not to know the details.
  24. That's entirely up to the local press whether they choose to publish or not. The item in this week's paper happened before Up Helly Aa, and before the Bill incident happened. I'm not sure why the Shetland Times has chosen to publish it now, over a month later.
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