SHETLAND TIMES COLUMN 11th NOVEMBER 2011

The Olympic Torch is coming to Shetland next June and will be paraded through Lerwick. Details are scant, but Seb Coe was on the TV this week saying the Olympic organisers were taking the torch to 95% of the UK population. It is welcome that Shetland is included. Too often when a Government or organisation such as mobile phone companies, say they cover 95% of the population then it is no surprise when we are the 5% omitted!

Zero out of ten however for BBC Scotland who in reporting the Olympic Torch route this week, managed to put Shetland in the Moray Firth on a BBC map. The BBC bosses in Glasgow should watch out. When Shetland negotiates the Islands