''The Shetland Times'' is a weekly newspaper in

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, published on Fridays and based in

Lerwick Lerwick (; non, Leirvik; nrn, Larvik) is the main town and port of the Shetland archipelago, Scotland. Shetland's only burgh, Lerwick had a population of about 7,000 residents in 2010. Centred off the north coast of the Scottish mainland ...

, the main town in the

Shetland Islands Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Scotland lying between Orkney, the Faroe Islands and Norway. It is the northernmost region of the United Kingdom. The islands lie about to the n ...

. The newspaper is owned by The Shetland Times Ltd, a company which also operates a publishing arm, a bookshop and a printing company. Up to October 2014, the Shetland Times Ltd claimed to have 55 employees. Locally known as ''The Times'', the newspaper was established in 1872 and costs £1.30. The newspaper claims a circulation figure of 11,438. It was voted Newspaper of the Year by the (Scottish) Highlands and Islands Media Awards in 2006.

Editors

From February 2006 until February 2008 the editor was Jonathan Lee, formerly of the ''Aberdeen Evening Express''. Lee left the ''Shetland Times'' following newsroom staff passing a vote of no confidence in his editorship. He was succeeded by Paul Riddell, a former assistant editor of The Scotsman.

References

External links

''The Shetland Times'' website
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