... Easter Rising on show ON THURSDAY Shetland Film Club will be showing Michael Collins at the North Atlantic Fisheries College, Scalloway, at 7.30 pm. The film opens with the young Michael Collins under fire in the General Post Office in Dublin, in the ...

... play The Countess Cathleen which. he later felt. may have been influential i firing up the revolutionaries of the 1916 Easter rising. His most enduring obsession i 1 litetime consumed with interests as diverse as the occult and Japanese noft drama was ...

... figure-head of Granuaile, the bringing a cargo of guns to Ireland famous 16th century Pirate Queen. prior to the 1916 Easter Rising, Her name comes from Norse has not been languishing mythology and means Home of unforgotten — she is one of the the Gods ...

... Some Easter SElvices Worshipping together at Brae Kirk on Easter Sunday were the folk from Brae, Muckle Roe, Voe and Mossbank in a combined service led by the Rev. Mary Spowart, acting as locum during the continuing vacancy. The Sunday school sang two ...

... gardens during March, Apnl can come as a bit of a disappointment, especially if the temperatures stay low (let’s hope a white Easter weekend was winter’s final fling ). On the last day of March 1 counted no less than 60 different plants in flower in the garden; ...

... advertising campaign which will be concentrated in the run-up to Easter. It will have a new approach, reflecting changes in market conditions. With retail prices high and possibly rising further if quotas are substantially reduced, we need to counter consumer ...

... 20 years to get into the story, a thought occurred to me: ‘““Has the silly season begun?’’ Well, it was a holiday weekend. Easter Monday. Spring. Which brings me onto voar. The courting and breeding season is just one of the most exciting times of the ...

... (Shetland) Ltd. to put up a repair workshop, store yard and offices near the new marts building at North Staney Hill, also gave rise to concern from the community An application to keep a portable cabin at Glenmavis, Sandwick, by Mr Cecil Hughson was objected ...

... Weldernnews B ———————— T RN ===, Small change of scene to springtime IT IS Easter at last! Somehow this term has dragged on as never before, with the old weather lore prophets proven right in every particular of their gloomy forecasts. Gedi's gorge lies ...

... jumpers. Leggings, both patterned and plain, now come in larger sizes. Catering for everyone is quite a challenge, but Top Gear rises to it with ease, managing to stock everything from winceyette nightdresses to silk shorts. Upstairs you’ll find a range of ...

... week on all the islands, while two greenshank and five shelduck at Baltasound were unusual. Single whooper swans remained at Easter Loch, Unst and Sandy Loch, Yell, until the 15th. Four snow buntings were near Mid Yell on the 6th, two glaucous gulls in South ...

... the hands (or rather teeth) or sheep, and the flowers never get beyond the dark green bud stage; only the strap-like leaves rise in a cluster nipped off straight along the top edge, barely distinguishable from the coarser grasses around them, or the young ...