The Shetland News is a news website serving the islands of
Shetland
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 no ...
, Scotland.
Previously, ''The Shetland News'' was a weekly newspaper published between 1885 and 1963. The website, published by an unrelated company (Zetnews Limited), was launched in 1995, on the idea of
IT entrepreneur Graeme Storey. The founding directors included Graeme Storey and Jonathan Wills.
In 1996, ''
The Shetland Times
''The Shetland Times'' is a weekly newspaper in Shetland, published on Fridays and based in Lerwick, the main town in the Shetland Islands
Shetland, also called the Shetland Islands and formerly Zetland, is a subarctic archipelago in Sco ...
'' and ''The Shetland News'' were involved in a landmark legal case over alleged copyright infringement and
deep linking
In the context of the World Wide Web, deep linking is the use of a hyperlink that links to a specific, generally searchable or indexed, piece of web content on a website (e.g. "http://example.com/path/page"), rather than the website's home page ( ...
. The case was settled before going to court, by mutual agreement, regarding how web links would be made and specifically, how links would be accredited.
In March 2011, long-term Shetland News journalists Pete Bevington and Hans Marter (trading under 'Shetland News LLP') parted company with Graeme Storey (trading under 'Force 10') who owned the domain names, and had been providing IT management, web design and web hosting services for the website. Bevington and Marter moved the news service to a new domain, www.shetnews.co.uk. On 1 April 2011, Storey published a statement at the original domain (www.shetland-news.co.uk) describing the history and development of the website.
On 27 April 2011, Graeme Storey began to use the original domain (which had always been his property) as a news portal, re-branding it 'Shetland Daily', which pulls in content from other local, regional and national news websites offering Shetland related content.
References
External links
''Shetland Daily''''Shetland News''
British news websites
Internet properties established in 1995
Scottish websites
Shetland culture
1995 establishments in Scotland
1885 establishments in Scotland
1963 disestablishments
Mass media in Shetland
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