... A NEW ZEALANDER is looking for information about a Shetland trophy named after her ~ Barbara Henderson's grandparents emigrated to New Zealand from Shetland. She said: “My father is William Robert Hen- Anyone with any informatior derson and his grandfather ...

... fundraising drive to commission an item of classical music by wellknown Fair Isle composer Alastair Stout. The piece will be named after Fair Isle and the world premiere will be in the isle in 2002. ...

... brought. One of these companies was the Lowestoft Steam Herring Drifters Co Ltd, which built up a large fleet of drifters named after English Lords — like Lord Howe, Lord Anson and Lord Rodney. The vessels were easily identifiable from a distance by a white ...

... undoubtedly good although I confess I have only tried my hand at one dish from the collection — La Bandiera — a pasta dish named after the Italian flag. But following the ingredients exactly, even ...

... to his wife Hera, and enjoyed dabbling with mortals. The four moons of Jupiter — 10, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — are named after his most famous seductions. lo was a priestess of Hera whom Zeus was besotted with. He visited her disguised as silver mist ...

... Bold, it is her first CD for five years. It is coming out on the new label Catriona has set up, Peerie Angel Productions, named after the first Shetland fiddle group she was in, Tammie's Peerie Angels. She hopes the CD will be in Shetland record shops from ...

... legs for six oars The latest addition to the yoal racing circuit was officially named and launched on Saturday. Sleipner, named after the mythical eight-legged horse belonging to the Norse god Odin, is the second boat for the Whiteness and Weisdale Boating ...

... The following week member Peter Garrick asked the question: “Who was Katie Ratter and why is there a hill and a corner named after her in Sandness?” He answered it by reading a fascinating extract from local church minutes of 1709 in which she was accused ...

... golfers involved in the Saturday competitions at Dale it was back to the wind and rain for Saturday’s DCM and RWAG Open, named after sponsors DC Electrics, M&R Gair, and WAG Construction. Conditions improved slightly through the afternoon, and coincidence ...

... Norwegian archaeologists believe legendary Viking sailor Leif Eriksson established a settlement 1000 years previously. Named after a ship from the Norse Sagas, the Skibladner is sailing from Shetland to Faroe, Iceland and Greenland. She is then pressing ...

... lasses wore dark purple dresses. First stop was Baltasound School, where they arrived pulling their new galley Heimdall, named after the god who guarded the rainbow bridge between the Viking worlds of Asgard and Midgard and who was famed for Nk A gathering ...

... Sound, Shining Bear, Joe Scurfield, the lady from the Shetland Fiddlers Society, the aunty whom the Suffering Aunties are named after. Thank you for a weekend that is justly named for the folk of Shetland. Four th ousand people turned up at venues across ...