Winning a GOLD Shetland Tidy Business award at the recent accreditation ceremony is testimony to our company’s continued commitment to meeting the rigorous national criteria that this award is based upon. Having won Silver awards in 2010 and 2011, this GOLD award is a credit to our workforce for improving standards.

Tidy Business Award is an annual award scheme with three award levels: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

The aim of the scheme is to raise the awareness of local businesses about methods of containment, storage, collection and disposal of their waste, promoting litter or recycling initiatives to the public and schools, enhancing local community environment and to drive up standards in general.

Working for a clean, green, sustainable Shetland, the awards also focus on waste minimisation strategies for local businesses and we are proud to be involved in such initiatives.

Benefits of producing together: As production and distribution costs, via The Shetland Times newspaper (9,700 copies) using our “Town and Country” option, are evenly shared by each contributor, the leaflet provides excellent value for money. The second edition of our Winter Motoring leaflet has brought together 11 companies from throughout Shetland who have a link to the motoring trade (an increase of four companies from our first edition). This provides customers with an easy to read overview and choices for winter motoring services, offers, products and accessories which are available from local sources.

Customer: Aith Garage, AMS Mechanical Services, Burra Motors, Brae Garage,  Central Garage, GMS, JRJ Shetland Ltd, J. Burgess, Leask Motors, Tingwall Garage, Nicolsons.

Customer Feedback: Participating companies have informed us that they can directly link new business and new business enquiries directly back to their page promotions in the leaflet.

Size: The 12pp, A5 fold out format works well to incorporate and display all the contributors’ promotions whilst at the same time making use of a popular layout.

Our Recommendation: 12pp, A5 folding out to A3 can be more cost effective than a producing a stitched booklet of the same pagination.

Materials: This 130gsm gloss art is perfect for flyers and leaflets that have multiple folds.

Our Recommendation: Choosing one of our recycled ranges of papers will benefit the environment and currently do not add much, if anything in some instances, to the cost of production.

Printing: Full colour throughout gives the option to highlight certain services or products and make any special offers eye-catching, drawing potential clients into your promotion.

Our Recommendation: Don’t advertise “everything” your company has to offer on your A5 page. Choose a maximum of two services/products/offers as this will allow you to monitor the level of feedback and gauge if this marketing tool works well for you.

Finishing: This manageable and popular format is tactile and the perfect size for taking out shopping, keeping in the car, on the coffee table or pin-board in the homes of your potential clients for future reference.

Our Top Tip: Our 8pp or 12pp fold out formats are cost effective options provide flexible layout and design choices that work well. For 16pp promotions we recommend the saddle stitched booklet option.

Benefits of producing a Personalised 2012 Calendar: You can use your own digital photographs and make this a truly personal gift. Images of your family, friends, special occasions, birthdays, holiday, sporting year or family event are only a few of the potential subjects that make perfect content for this calendar format. All you have to do is send us in the photographs, and you can include captions too if you like, and we will do the rest for you.

Customer: Individuals/families/friends, sports groups and associations.

Customer Feedback: Orders from 2004 through to the present day proves how popular an offer this is.

Size: 12pp plus cover, A4 portrait with backboard, ring bound at the top and includes a metal hanger.

Our Recommendation: A4 portrait doesn’t take up too much room when hung and displays photographs to their full potential.

Materials: 170gsm matt art paper work well as this stock allows you to write notes, appointments or special dates on the calendar block with an everyday biro or pencil (some offers may be produced on photographic paper which makes this more difficult).

Our Recommendation: 170gsm is the most suitable calliper for calendar leaves.

Printing: Full colour throughout – this will display your photographs to their full potential.

Our Recommendation: Set your camera to its highest setting and supply high resolution images to get the best end result.

Finishing: We will include a dust cover with an appropriate image chosen by you. The calendar will have white metal wires and a hanger along with a stiff backboard to give it a professional finish. It will definitely be a gift worth giving.

Our Top Tip: Choose your photographs wisely and supply only the ones that are sharp and in focus as any that are not will stand out (for all the wrong reasons!!) and may spoil the overall finished look of your calendar.

The October issue of Shetland Life is out tomorrow and is packed with the usual strong selection of feature articles and columns all about island life. Malachy’s editorial notes with some sadness the news that Clive’s Record Shop is closing down later this month. In an in-depth interview with Neil Riddell, the music shop’s owner Clive Munro discusses the highs and lows of selling music to the Shetland public for three decades.

Elsewhere, Jordan Ogg catches up with novelist and poet Kevin MacNeil, the editor of a new collection of poetry from Scotland’s islands entitled These Islands, We Sing. No less than 20 of the 60 poets featured in the book have some sort of connection with Shetland.

Photographer Chloe Garrick contributes a gallery of pictures of Shetland’s climbing enthusiasts from a recent club outing to Burra and one of its weekly training sessions at Clickimin. The centre-spread gallery is a series of shots of Shetland in winter from Bristol photographer Jerome Lorieau.

There is a two-page feature on In Passing, the new album from singer-songwriter Donald Anderson and his backing band, guitarist Alan McKay, (councillor) Rick Nickerson on bass and drummer Duncan Kidson.

Motor enthusiasts are sure to enjoy the second of two articles about George Jacobson’s slow and painstaking restoration of his 1936 Calthorpe motorcycle, written by Ryan Taylor.

Marsali Taylor delves into the past to find out the history behind reports of apparitions and mysterious happenings at Busta House. Also looking back in time is Douglas C Smith, who examines the enormous improvements in living standards that took place in Shetland over the course of the 20th century.

University student and writer Roseanne Watt answers this month’s 21 questions, while regular columnists including Vaila Wishart, Jimmy Stout, Louise Brewer, Bryan Peterson and Sandy Nelson are all present and correct.

• Available Friday 7th October from all good newsagents, priced £2.30.

Printed Menus of all types, from takeaway, in-house, display and as inserts in The Shetland Times.

Benefits of producing professional menus:

When selling food items it is particularly essential to create a good first impression and give consumers instant confidence in your business and its produce. Having a professionally produced menu plays a part in achieving this and we can design, layout, print and finish your menus to help showcase your products.

Customer:

Various including, The Great Wall, Flames, KGQ Hotels, Sarmile, Phusiam, Da Muckle Café and Scalloway Hotel.

Customer Feedback:

Frequent re-orders for many of the menus provides positive feedback that the formats chosen work well and our clients’ tell us there is a strong and constant demand for their takeaway menus in particular.

Size:

Pagination will depend on the amount of items you wish to include on your menu. Formats vary widely from A5 single sided, 6pp or 8pp 1/3 A4 through to 4pp A4 depending on usage. There are various other format options too which can be discussed and we have a selection of samples at our factory for clients to view.

Our Recommendation:

6pp or 8pp 1/3 A4 menus work well for takeaway menus.

Materials:

From 80gsm coloured uncoated papers through to 300gsm uncoated, silk or matt art boards, we can help you choose which will be most beneficial dependent on our clients’ proposed usage.

Our Recommendation:

For in-house/table menus we suggest using one of our heavier card options.

Printing:

Your options are varied and will depend on usage. Single or two colour suits a variety of formats but full colour can provide that extra eye-catching edge.

Our Recommendation:

If your in-house menus are changing on a regular basis, get us to print a generic “template” with your corporate details and “menu” strap-line. This will allow you to overprint the menu content whilst keeping them looking professional.

Finishing:

We provide the option to gloss or matt laminate menus which creates a protective coating.

Our Top Tip:

If you want to get your menu out to the majority of potential clients within Shetland, call us for information on our “Shetland – Town and Country” distribution option. We insert 9700 copies of your menu into an issue of The Shetland Times newspaper which cover the majority of the islands.

Shetland Fishing & Aquaculture Directory 2011 (published September 2011)

Benefits of producing a Directory:

We have brought together 40 local companies working within Shetland’s fishing and aquaculture industry to create an informative and useful guide.

It provides potential customers requiring information, products or services from within this sector, relevant and up to date contact information alongside short company profiles. It allows them to locate and place orders with the most suitable local Shetland business that can best meet their needs.

Distribution of the directory at trade shows, exhibitions and similar relevant fishing/aquaculture events will help reach our target audience directly and enhance the exchange process.

Customer:

From Associations through to Zetland Marine Services

Customer Feedback:

The project is supported by 40 local companies whose vision of combining forces to promote the industry together was seen as a positive and beneficial step.

Size:

Each company was allocated a half page entry from a choice of six sectors. Multiple entries were also accepted for those who worked in a variety of areas. The directory is a 40pp A5 booklet format.

Our Recommendation:

Choose a format that enhances the content of your project and that still allows “white space” in the layout/design.

Materials:

150gsm gloss art paper worked well and the decision to use this stock was made to ensure the bright and vibrant colours of logos and photographs reproduced as sharp imagery.

Our Recommendation:

Choose the type of paper or board to enhance the content of your project. Gloss, matt, silk or uncoated stock all have benefits depending on the final effect you want to achieve.

Printing:

Full colour throughout allows contributing companies to promote their corporate image and product/service content to its full potential and leaves those reading the directory with a more memorable impression.

Our Recommendation:

Statistics show that people are 85% more likely to buy a product which has been promoted in full colour – the choice is simple!
Source: http://www.agidc.com/pdf/20WAYSCOLOR.pdf

Our Top Tip:

Work together on projects to promote your industry as a whole and reap the following benefits:

Hassle free – we can project manage your next production
Cost effective – production cost is split equally between all businesses
High impact – visually eye-catching and well produced promotional product
New contacts – Reach new and potential customers

Why produce a programme for your event?:

We offer direction from design to finishing the printed piece while advising on the do’s and don’ts of preparing a programme for printing. This is a good way to raise funds for your organisation, whilst at the same time create an archive of historical information and images for your particular sport or event. A programme can help raise your organisation’s profile and further increase interest and possibly even participation in your sport.

Customer:

Various including Shetland Junior Inter-county Association, Shetland Interclub, Shetland Football Association and Shetland Volleyball Association.

Customer Feedback:

“We raised funds from the sale of our programme and our own feedback from player and spectators on the design and content was very positive”. KS – S.V.A.

Size:

In general pagination will depend on your budget, the size of your event, the amount of programmes you can sell and of course the final content you decide to publish. With this in mind we produce programmes from 4pp upwards.

Our Recommendation:

A5 portrait booklets work well for sporting events. Let us advise on the most economical number of pages prior to sending you a free quotation.

Materials:

130/150gsm gloss, silk or matt art paper work well and the decision on which one to choose will mainly come down to personal choice rather than any obvious technical benefit.

Our Recommendation:

Choosing one of our recycled ranges of papers will benefit the environment and currently do not add much, if anything in some instances, to the cost of production.

Printing:

Full colour throughout – it provides better value for your potential customers or supporting advertisers and is what the majority of purchasers expect.

Our Recommendation:

Get your job printed using the lithographic process on a commercial printing press for the best reproduction. Avoid poor digitally printed substitutes if possible.

Finishing:

We saddle stitch the majority of A5 booklets and trim to the finished size on our binding line before packaging them ready for delivery.

Our Recommendation:

Produce a “self-covered” programme with the same weight of cover as is on the inside pages. This is the most economical format.

Our Top Tip:

It will help if you initially take time to approach relevant companies that are in some way connected to your sport or event and offer them the opportunity to advertise in your programme.

Set a sensible price per full page or half page advert. This will provide enough revenue to help pay for the production of your programme – the cash raised from the sale of the programme is clear profit for your funds.

Benefits of producing our Stationery Starter Package:

Our “Stationery Pack Special Offer” was implemented to give start-up businesses, be they micro, cottage, small or medium in size, access to professionally produced corporate documents at an economic rate.

Costs include creating your artwork and we have extended this offer to include businesses who wish to rebrand or redesign their current stationery too.

Ordering this special offer for your initial stationery order is more cost effective than ordering each of the three individual items separately.

The public face or corporate image of a business is vitally important. Creating a positive first impression can be crucial when trying to win new work or contracts. This pack ensures your business cards, compliment slips and letterheads have a positive visual and tactile impact.

Customer: Various including, Centre for Nordic Studies, Smiths of Lerwick, Lerwick DIY, Shetland Wind Power Ltd, Shetland Maritime Ltd, A. M. Saunders and Co, GB Design and Consultants to name only a few.

Customer Feedback:

We receive re-orders on a regular basis which is a good indication that this popular offer continues to work well and provides good value.

Size:

All items are industry standard sizes with business cards 55mm x 90mm, compliment slips 99mm x 210mm (1/3A4) and letterheads 210mm x 297mm (A4).

Our Recommendation: Stick with industry standard sizes these will allow your business cards to fit in storage wallets and letterheads are suitable for lever arch folder etc.

Materials:

Business cards are on 350gsm matt coated with the compliment slips and letterheads printed on 100gsm bond.

Our Recommendation: There is an option to choose one of our recycled ranges of papers. Let us know if this is your preferred option and we can discuss the possibilities further.

Printing:

There are three packs to choose from to best suit your organisations needs; single colour, two colour or full colour options. Call us or drop along to see which one is most suitable and we can show you samples of previous jobs printed, paper samples and prices for the various options.

Our Recommendation: Your choice will be partly decided by your company logo – ie if it is a line drawing or simple font, single or two colours would suffice – if it is full colour this would be your best option to keep continuity running through your corporate image .

Finishing:

We provide plastic business card storage boxes free of charge with your order and will complete your job to meet pre-arranged delivery dates.

Our Top Tip:

Order this stationery pack and make a great value saving on your initial order.

With the focal point of the summer, the Tall Ships Races, fast approaching, this month’s Shetland Life has an appropriately nautical theme. A photo of regular visitor Staatsrad Lehmkuhl is on the front cover and an article by Kieran Murray reveals the ship’s history, as well as that of two others competing in the races, Christian Radich and Sorlandet. These fully-rigged Norwegian ships are two of only eight in the world and are both nearly 100 years old. Both suffered at the hands of the Germans in World War II but went on to have interesting futures.

Shetland, it emerges in an article by Charlie Simpson, had its own tall ship in the form of the Dorjoy. This three-masted schooner was owned by Mrs Anne Robertson, wife of “probably the most dynamic and energetic Shetland businessman of his generation” John W Robertson. He was county convener and Lerwick’s first Guizer Jarl in 1906, and by 1927 he ran a huge conglomerate of marine-related enterprises.

Shetland’s more tragic side of maritime history is recalled in Marsali Taylor’s article about whaling ship Diana, trapped in the Greenland ice in the winter of 1866/7. The story of the loss of many young lives – one Shetlander was only 14 – is summed up by a quote from The Scotsman on the ship’s return: “A ghastly ship, the main deck a charnel house”.

On a more topical note Chris Cope features bands due to perform during the Tall Ships visit, and editor Malachy Tallack writes about controversial cinema and music venue Mareel. Why is so much ire directed against it? He personally does not “do” sport but does not suggest leisure centres should be bombed. Mareel received £6 million of external funding, so is the prejudice simply machismo or xenophobia?

Equally hard-hitting in its support for the venue is music promoter Bryan Peterson’s article. He takes a swipe at the licensing board, and at Lerwick’s nightlife. If you don’t like the Thule followed by Posers (stuck in a hellish musical timewarp) or Flint’s and Da Wheel you’re stuffed, he said. And look out for a Wubbie cartoon from Shetland’s cultural attaché battling to justify Mareel.

Columnist Vaila Wishart writes about trade unions. Although they were right about a failure to have public discussion about cutbacks, they did not complain when more council staff were taken on with a wage bill of £80 million per year. So the magazine has lots of controversy but other features besides. Louis Johnson writes an unusual article in dialect about the work of the hands of Shetland’s oldest person, and the Past in Pictures slot has fascinating information on the premises in da Street around the Grand Hotel. Eileen Brooke-Freeman gives some interesting insights into place names – Hillswick, Gulberwick, Haroldswick and Otterswick were all named after men. There is a dialect article from Mary Blance and a gallery of photographs from local people, plus some mouthwatering puddings from Ann Prior. These recipes – for summer pudding, brown bread ice cream and more – are “cheating”, she said, because they are so easy but still delicious.

With sudoku, wordsearch, crosswords and competitions, Shetland Life, on sale today, has something to offer all ages.

We have provided a project management and book publishing service over many years specialising in books of local interest. From smaller print runs of 300 copies up to larger print runs in the 1000’s, we will initially discuss your general concepts for a book and provide consultation prior to agreement to publish.

We will advise and take care of all the technical issues involved in publishing a book including fonts, font sizes, formats available, providing ISBN numbers and barcodes etc. Distribution will also be taken into account and The Shetland Times Bookshop povides a perfect outlet for selling this type of product in the shop on Commercial Street, Lerwick, Shetland, or online at www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/shop.

Please contact us to for an initial consultation to discuss your ideas and content.

Customer: Various.

Customer Feedback:

• Shetland – A Love Story – “…a nice book but your input has made it into a lovely book”.
• Hamefarin – From Old Rock to New Life – “I am most grateful to you for the superb quality of your work, and particularly value the helpful service you provide”.
• Bright Pebbles – “…We are delighted with Bright Pebbles. It is a beautifully presented and produced book”.
• The Isle of Vaila – Volume 1 – We are delighted, many thanks for your excellent support and assistance”.

Job Description: Project managed, designed, produced artwork and printed books to client’s rough layout using text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Artwork created using InDesign software.

Size/Materials: Pagination and format vary to best suit the authors’ content, and subject matter. The majority of books we print are printed on 130gsm/150gsm quality matt or silk art stock including our recycled paper options.

Design/Prepress: Designed, produced artwork on Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software to client’s rough layout using text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Images output to metal plates on Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate (CTP) system. Job proofs were supplied in PDF or hard copy digital format on Xerox Docucolor 250 / 7335 Digital Printers. Pressproofs for colour matching output on Epson StylusPRO 7800 Colour Proofing System.

Printing: Full colour process (and machine sealer on some projects) throughout on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. Sections printed work and turn/tumble and colour profiles for job content sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching.

Finishing: Job folded on our Stahl folder. Gathered, on our Linotype Trimstitch binding line, perfect bound or sewn with hardback or paperback covers. Covers generally matt or gloss laminated one side on Orion industrial thermal laminator to provide a protective coating.

Raffles or draw tickets are great fundraising ideas for your charity, club, nonprofit, or any organisation. We create eye-catching tickets, sequentially numbered with perforated counterfoils, and you can choose from the following styles:

• Stapled in booklets of five or ten tickets to suit your needs;

• Single tickets printed on 100gsm paper or a heavier board.

We advise and ensure all the essential details required for your ticket are discussed and put in place before providing you with a proof for your approval. Generally tickets are printed in one colour of our customers’ choice. Once you have placed your order we can have the tickets ready and with you normally within two working weeks.

Customer: Charities, Sports Clubs, Associations etc.

Job Description: Designed, produced artwork and printed tickets to client’s rough layout using text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Artwork created using Indesign software.

Size/Materials: 99mm x 200mm and printed on a 100gsm or 200micron quality bond stock. Recycled stock is also available. Tickets can be produced in landscape or portrait formats.

Design/Prepress: Produced artwork on Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software to client’s rough layout using text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Images output to polyester plates on Silvermaster Digiplater SDP- ECO 1630. Job proofs were supplied in PDF format or hard copy digital format printed on Xerox Docucolor 250 / 7335 Digital Printers.

Printing: One colour on our Heidelberg GTO 52 Single-colour press, printed, perforated and numbered in one run.

Finishing: Job trimmed to finished size on our Polar 76 EMA guillotine Microcomputer controlled programmable guillotine. Stitched on Multinak S Stitcher which is used for side or saddle stitching a variety of small books/booklets and other smaller stationery requirements. Job packed on Minipak 24044 shrink wrapper used to protect jobs prior to delivery.

The June edition of Shetland Life magazine is a stimulating read. Editor Malachy Tallack writes about the price of fuel, probably the biggest issue facing Shetland residents, and speaks for many when he says: “filling up the car is a traumatic experience”. The rise in fuel prices is a serious as climate change, he says, but there does not seem to be a solution.

Fair Isle correspondent Jimmy Stout muses on the present unseasonable weather, a wash-out even for birds, and about the recent election. “Shetland voted as I would have predicted, proving little and giving little for any candidate to enthuse about.” Columnist Vaila Wishart puts it more bluntly (“Tavish had his cage rattled”) and goes on to wonder why the council seems so keen to do business with the Faroese. She also ponders council re-organisation – losing 15 out of 72 managers without services being affected “speaks for itself”.

From Tasmania, Louise Brewer wonders why the pom-bashing Aussies were so enthusiastic about the Royal Wedding. School librarian Kat Brack is the subject of 21 Questions, always a revealing article, and regular contributor Bryan Peterson writes about sectarianism, also hugely revealing. It was a “genuine shock”, when living in Glasgow, he says, to experience the levels of hatred between Catholic and Protestant communities, so bad that in certain workplaces the different faiths had to have different lunch breaks.

Another fascinating article, this time about Arctic whaling, comes from Marsali Taylor and will be concluded next month. The regular Past in Pictures slot this month features Lerwick’s gas works, which used to stand on the site of Charlotte House – amazingly the site was only cleared in 1977. The magazine celebrates creativity too, with a set of photos showing the work of potter John Jacobs, based in Vidlin. Then there is literary culture in the form of a translation into Shetland dialect of a Chekhov short story The Lady with the Little Dog, with recognisable local names and places being used instead of the originals. A great way to read a classic.

Shetland Life also features photography and the usual favourites of sudoku, crosswords, cartoons and children’s items. The magazine has something for all ages and is on sale now.

Shetland Litho approached local businesses in the fashion, motoring and financial sectors with ideas for projects that would see them all work together to promote their particular industry. From this, successful and ongoing leaflets, “Shetland Fashion Outlets”, “Winter Motoring”, “Summer Motoring” and “Money Matters” have been designed, created and then distributed as inserts in The Shetland Times newspaper, twice per year per edition.

Feedback from these various publications remains positive and we are happy to have brought these local companies together to successfully promote and market their products and services.

Shetland Litho welcomes enquiries from companies in all business sectors and will maintain our motivation to continue to help provide effective, competitively priced marketing and advertising ideas and products.

Customer: Various.

Job Description: Project managed, designed, produced artwork and printed leaflets using hard copy or text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Artwork created using InDesign software. Distribution included through The Shetland Times newspaper.

Size/Materials: 8pp A5 portrait, folding out landscape and printed on 150gsm quality gloss art stock.

Design/Prepress: Designed, produced artwork on Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software using hard copy or text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Images output to metal plates on Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate (CTP) system. Job proofs were supplied in PDF format and hard copy digital format on Xerox Docucolor 250 / 7335 Digital Printers. Pressproofs for colour matching output on Epson StylusPRO 7800 Colour Proofing System.

Printing: Full colour process throughout on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. One section printed work and tumble. Colour profiles for job content sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching.

Finishing: Job trimmed to finished size on our Polar 76 EMA guillotine Microcomputer controlled programmable guillotine before being folded on our Stahl folder. Jobs booked as inserts in The Shetland Times newspaper using our “All areas of Shetland” option (9700 copies) on various dates throughout the calendar year.

This series of award winning interpretive leaflets and Heritage Trail leaflets were re-designed and updated for 2011 and printed for our client, Shetland Amenity Trust. Part of this local organisation’s remit is to promote the cultural and natural heritage of the Shetland Islands and provide relevant information.

The leaflets are widely distributed for the local and tourist markets and have proved extremely popular. Various heritage trail leaflets give information on activities for families, locals and tourist alike. From the island of Fair Isle in the south to the island of Unst in the far North of Shetland and covering a multitude of other categories such as wildlife, archaeology and places of interest to name but a few, the interpretive leaflets are perfect for anyone requiring well researched information about Shetland, its culture and heritage.

Customer: Shetland Amenity Trust

Job Description: Printed from fully imposed, CMYK enabled, pdf files created using InDesign software with all high resolution images in place supplied on disk by client.

Size/Materials: 12pp, 1/3 A4 printed on 150gsm 75% recycled silk.

Design/Prepress: Imposed to printer’s imposition on Apple iMac desktops from print-ready PDF files, with all CMYK enabled high resolution images in place, supplied by client using Indesign. Artwork output to metal plates on Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate (CTP) system. Job proofs were supplied in PDF format. Pressproofs for colour matching output on Epson StylusPRO 7800 Colour Proofing System.

Printing: Full colour process and machine sealer throughout on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. One section printed work and turn. Colour profiles for job content sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching. Full colour process throughout on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. Printed on quality recycled stock this paper is produced from 50% de-inked post-consumer waste, 25% pre-consumer waste and 25% virgin fibre.

Finishing: Job trimmed to finished size on our Polar 76 EMA guillotine microcomputer controlled programmable guillotine before being folded on our Stahl folder using three buckle plates.

This month’s Shetland Life magazine mixes a diverse range of articles along with the regular contributions from the columnists. Features include: Mark Burgess answering 21 Questions, photographic galleries by Billy Fox and Gary Buchan, a catch-up on the musical career progress of Glasgow based Shetland band Oscar Charlie and a fascinating account of the earthquake in Japan by Emily MacFarlane… and much more.

The May edition of Shetland Life is in shops now, priced £2.30.

We create and produce annual reports for many businesses and organisations in various formats, sizes and paginations. These documents contain important details, facts and figures which can be designed in a variety of layouts and impositions to best suit our client’s needs.

We have built strong customer relationships over the years with our various clients allowing us to create a diverse range of design elements into each individual report to produce well laid out, readable documents.

If your company or organisation requires an annual report contact our customer service or sales team who will discuss the various options available to best suit your needs and budget requirements.

Customer: Including Shetland Amenity Trust, Citizens Advice Bureau, Promote Shetland, SIC Social Work (Shetland Voluntary Action), Shetland Recreational Trust and many more.

Job Description: Various projects had different needs which included us designing, producing artwork and to client’s rough layout using text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. Others were printed from fully imposed, CMYK enabled, pdf files created using InDesign software with all high resolution images in place supplied on disk by client. Artwork created using InDesign software.

Size/Materials: Various sizes produced from 8pp through to 64pp in various formats including 210mm x 210mm, A4 (210mm x 297mm) landscape and portrait. Paper and boards used included 120gsm, 130gsm, 150gsm, 170gsm, 200gsm and 250gsm stocks.

Design/Prepress: Designed, produced artwork on Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software to client’s rough layout. Imposed to printer’s imposition from print-ready PDF files, with all CMYK enabled high resolution images in place, supplied by client. Images output to metal plates on Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate (CTP) system. Job proofs were supplied in PDF format. Pressproofs for colour matching output on Epson StylusPRO 7800 Colour Proofing System.

Printing: Included mono and full colour processes on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. Colour and mono profiles for job content sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching. Printed on various stocks including standard gloss/silk/matt and quality 75% recycled paper/board produced from 50% de-inked post-consumer waste, 25% pre-consumer waste and 25% virgin fibre.

Finishing: Covers on some annual report were gloss laminated on Orion industrial thermal laminator. Laminating up to 685mm width this machine seals a protective 30 micron gloss or matt lamination on to paper stock. Jobs folded on our Stahl folder. Gathered, two wires stitched and trimmed in one pass on our Linotype Trimstitch binding line.

Having produced this yearly promotional leaflet for our client since 2000, the current issue has been re-designed to create an eye-catching and modern edition. The 6pp, 1/3A4 format is our most popular format and is frequently used to market and promote small to medium sized businesses.

The Island of Mousa has the best-preserved example of a defensive round stone tower, known locally as a Broch, and has received the accolade as “Scotland’s Top Attraction” in The Rough Guide. It is also a popular RSPB nature reserve and guided evening trips to see the Strom Petrols are available.

This is the 41st season of operation for this company and we are proud to have built a strong working relationship with Mousa Boat Trips.

Customer: Mousa Boat Trips

Job Description: Designed, produced artwork and printed leaflet to client’s rough layout using supplied text and suitable high resolution jpg or tiff file images.

Size/Materials: 6pp, 1/3A4 (99mm x 210mm), printed on 150gsm gloss art.

Design/Prepress: Designed and produced artwork on Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software. Images output to metal plates on Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate system (CTP). Job proofs were supplied as hard copy digital. Pressproofs for colour matching output on Epson StylusPRO 7800 Colour Proofing System.

Printing: Full-colour process throughout on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. One section printed work and turn. Colour profiles for job content sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching.

Finishing: Job trimmed and folded to finished size on our Stahl folder using two buckle plates.

For more information on Mousa Boat Trips click here.

Our wedding stationery starter package provides three types of folding invitations as well as “thank you” cards to make ordering stationery for your special day nice and simple. Invitations for the main ceremony, evening dance and second night or extra blank invitations will be customised and designed to your specifications. We can print the design or photo of your choice on the front of the cards, which you can provide us along with relevant text for the various insides.

We have chosen the perfect high quality, 260gsm, brilliant white card which has a “linen” texture to print your invitations on and samples of this stock is available at our Gremista office. The finished folded size of the invite is 140mm x 140mm.

Please contact us to discuss your wedding stationery requirements and we will help ease the strain of organising this small but important part of your ceremony.

This month’s Shetland Life magazine has an enjoyable mix of interesting and unexpected articles with something for all ages. There are the regular columns, with editor Malachy Tallack, in his piece about the forthcoming Scottish election, musing about the vulnerability of the Lib Dems and Vaila Wishart wondering why she saw a white flag flying from the Town Hall.

By contrast Jimmy Stout from Fair Isle writes about a shipwreck and later the first plane landing in the isle, Louise Brewer in Tasmania struggles with an enormous crop of cucumbers and Bryan Peterson debates the topical subject of ticket-buying for concerts. Wildlife in another location 60 degrees north, this time in Canada, is described by Shawn Bell, and comedian Sandy Nelson gives an insight into the not-so-pleasant aspects of doing stand-up.

Old photos are fascinating, and this month’s selection from Douglas Sinclair, featuring Lerwick watering holes of yesteryear are particularly so. His accompanying article is a mine of information. Coming right up to date, Marsali Taylor’s article about families affected by their loved ones use of drink and drugs is hard-hitting and very sad. On a lighter note the magazine has some wonderful wildlife photography – a pod of pilot whales and a bat and wild flowers, which accompany Rory Tallack’s article. Wendy Dickson shares her experience of tour-guiding and Andrew White describes his construction of two amazing wooden models.

With recipes from Ann Prior of “food that’s good for you” (who could resist that), articles of a purely Shetland nature about dialect and place names, plus cartoons, crosswords and sudoku, there is something for everyone.

The April edition of Shetland Life is out now, priced £2.30.

This quarterly “Frontier News” newsletter provides the latest information, images and photographs for the Laggan-Tormore project. Located approximately 125km north-west of the Shetland Islands, the Laggan and Tormore oil fields represent the future of the UK oil and gas industry. Both fields lie in an area known generically as West of Shetland – a region geographically closer to the North Atlantic than the North Sea – located on the edge of the UK continental shelf.

We were requested to source a recycled paper for this project and the 75% recycled silk stock we suggested gives the newsletter a high quality texture and finish.

Customer: Hampton Associates.

Job Description: Printed newsletter from fully imposed, CMYK enabled, PDF files with all high resolution images in place supplied by client.

Size/Materials: 8pp, A4 (210mm x 297mm) printed on a 150gsm silk 75% recycled stock. This quality stock is produced from 50% de-inked post-consumer waste, 25% pre-consumer waste and 25% virgin fibre.

Design/Prepress: Imposed to printer’s imposition on Apple iMac desktops from print-ready PDF files. Images output to metal plates through the Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate (CTP) system. Job proofs were supplied in PDF format. Pressproofs for colour matching output on Epson StylusPRO 7800 Colour Proofing System.

Printing: Full colour process throughout on our Komori S29, B2 commercial printing press. One 8pp section and two sets of metal plates. Colour profiles for job content sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching. Colours checked throughout run against Pressproofs.

Finishing: Job folded through two buckle plates on our Stahl folder in one pass. Two wires stitched and newsletter trimmed to finished size on our Linotype Trimstitch binding line. Newsletter was booked in to The Shetland Times newspaper as an insert to all areas of Shetland on Friday, 4th March, 2011.

We are happy to produce programmes for festivals of all sizes, providing services from project management through to, importantly, finishing all projects on time to agreed production schedule at very competitive rates. Our Up-Helly-A’ season starts in December every year and finishes in mid March when the final galley goes up in flames! We cover festivals from the south mainland up to the north mainland but would be glad to hear from those participating in the many isles events too.

If any of the festival committees currently producing their own programmes would like a quotation for their Up-Helly-A’ programme next year, please contact us and we can discuss the best format, materials and pagination to meet your needs and budget.

Customer: Scalloway, Lerwick, Northmavine, Nesting, South Mainland and Delting Up-Helly-A’ Committees.

Job Description: Project managed, designed, produced artwork, adverts and printed programmes to client’s rough layout using text supplied as a Microsoft Word file and images supplied as suitable high resolution jpeg or tiff files. (Northmavine programme was printed from supplied copy)

Size/Materials: All A5, portrait (148mm x 210mm) varying in pagination from an 8pp through to a 68pp programme. Various materials used including 130gsm gloss, 150gsm gloss/silk and 225gsm gloss art.

Design/Prepress: Designed, produced artwork on Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software. Output to metal plates on Agfa Galileo Computer to Plate system (CTP).

Printing: Full colour process throughout on our Komori S29, B2 commercial printing press. Amount of sections run vary depending on programme. Profiles for colour sent directly from prepress to Komori’s automated ink management system, facilitating precise colour matching.

Finishing: Folded on our Stahl folder. Gathered, two wires stitched and trimmed in one pass on our Linotype Trimstitch binding line.

For more information on Up-Helly-A’ click here.

This is the 2nd edition of the annual Official Shetland Folk Festival Programme published by The Shetland Times Ltd. After positive feedback, from 2010 festival attendees and participating artistes in relation to the programmes design, content, and usefulness, it was decided to proceed with a similar programme again this year. It includes general festival information, concert venue, dates and times, full artiste biographies and adverts from various relevant local businesses. In addition there are a host of photographs from last years festival so you might even be in it yourself!

Advance membership ticket forms were sent out in the mail at the weekend and the Official Folk Festival Programme can be ordered on it too at a price of £3 per copy. Simply tick the appropriate check box and the programme will be sent to you along with your concert tickets. Similarly it can be ordered when tickets go on general sale too from the ticket purchase form free with The Shetland Times newspaper. The programme will also be on sale at most venues throughout the festival from doors people or raffle sellers.

Shetland Litho would like to wish the Shetland Folk Festival Committee all the best for the 31st Shetland Folk Festival!

Customer: Shetland Folk Festival Committee.

Job Description: Project managed, sourced and typeset adverts, produced artwork and printed booklet using supplied text and suitable high resolution jpg or tiff file images.

Size / Materials: 48pp, self-covered A6 (105mm x 148mm) on 150gsm gloss art.

Design/Pre-Press: Typeset adverts and create artwork on our Apple iMac desktops using InDesign software, output to Agfa Galileo CTP.

Printing: Full-colour process throughout on our Komori S29 commercial printing press. One 32pp section and one 16pp half section.

Finishing: Folded on our Stahl folder. Gathered, two wires stitched and trimmed in one pass on our Linotype Trimstitch binding line.

For more information on the 31st Shetland Folk Festival click here.

The Voar issue of The New Shetlander leads with a fine new story from Jim Taylor, Rough crossing, told in the voice of a Polish girl working in Shetland. Jim Mainland, thinking of the state of the nation, writes satirically of My Travails in ye Bigge Society. Brydon Leslie contributes Two modern sagamen: a literary study of national identity, examining books by Iceland’s Halldor Laxness and Norway’s Knut Hamsun, both Nobel laureates, while Willie Thompson has made a study of Laxness’ Nobel-Prizewinning novel Independent People, and compares it with Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s classic Sunset Song.

The magnificent solid gold “Oxna armlet”, which dates from Viking times, was discovered in Oxna in 1913 by a boy from Hamnavoe, James Fullerton. The story of the armlet’s discovery and identification is told here by Margaret Stuart, whose aunt Elizabeth Stout was the person who realised what the beautiful piece of jewellery actually was. Christopher Jamieson’s story Unidentified drink takes place just after a funeral, and has captured something of the feelings and atmosphere of some such moments. James Sinclair’s story Legging it has a breathless pace. Christian Tait has re-told the fable Da hare an da tortoise in lightsome Shetland dialect. Young Dialect Writer of 2010 was Peter Ratter; his story is Da perishin Nort. In Shetland there is frequent discussion about, and occasional research into the loss of dialect vocabulary. Ian Tait has decided to investigate one word for himself: the word “heck” (in various spellings). His article, A heck of a loss, looks at four distinct original usages of the word, analyses where the usages seem to have come from and considers why they fell out of use.

Bobby Gear has been studying Some Nesting place names; his informative article has photographs and a clear map. Tim Senften has written about Seven specks of gold found in Unst, based on research in the Sandison archives in Baltasound. Mary Manson of West Sandwick, who died in 1994, was known in Yell for her storytelling and her excellent memory. Lynn Abrams’ article The story of the two men in the snow features a transcript of a story told by Mary Manson to Robert Johnson in 1982. Then Abrams looks at the historical evidence behind the story, the storyteller’s skill, and the reasons for telling the story in a particular way. Poets Christine De Luca and Christie Williamson each have several poems in this issue, with contributions also from Gordon Dargie, Laureen Johnson and Heyddir Johnson, whose poem is in memory of Jack Renwick. Da Wadder Eye is enraged at threats to the funding of public libraries, and concerned about local apathy in community council elections. There are book reviews as usual. The editorial muses on wirkin da voar in 2011.

The New Shetlander number 255 is on sale from today, priced at £2.

In this month’s Shetland Life, editor Malachy Tallack questions the level at which society relies on technology, and warns against the dangers of too much dependence on modern tools. The theme of questioning modern technology is continued by Bryan Peterson, who investigates the impact the internet has had on the music industry, and, specifically, the ability of musicians to make money in today’s world of downloads and online sales.

21 Questions comes from the diminutive Sarah Laurenson, marketing manager at wool brokers Jamieson & Smith, whose eclectic answers include a love of “women who die horrible deaths”, sewing machines and a Glasgow-based harp busker. Dave Donaldson takes a look at a day in the life of the most northerly RNLI station in Britain in his photo gallery on the Aith lifeboat crew on a training trip on the vessel Charles Lidbury. There is another look at maritime life in Kieran Murray’s piece on the sailing barque Star of Scotland.

There is local history aplenty. From Douglas Smith comes the fascinating tale of a previous Shetland Life article and how it led to the discovery of a unique wartime photograph. Douglas Sinclair continues his series on Lerwick bakers John Black & Sons and life in the town in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Meanwhile, Graham Jamieson reflects on life as the last “van man” in his feature on “Da Central Van”.

There are more photographs from Brian Leask, with his colourful display of wildlife taken in the Cairngroms in Scotland and in Pusztaszer, Hungary. There is more wildlife in the form of a short story by Marsali Taylor, entitled “Bugs and Beasties”. Regular Shetland place name and dialect contributors Eileen Brooke-Freeman and Mary Blance are also included, as are Jimmy Stout and Louise Brewer and Vaila Wishart in their respective columns.

Finally, Shawn Bell, an avid hockey goalie who lives in Fort Smith, Northwest Territories, recounts life in another land on the 60° north line.

The March edition of Shetland Life is out now, priced £2.30.

Our full-colour A4 Shetland Scenic Calendar 2012 is now on sale at The Shetland Times Bookshop and also available to buy from the online store. It is priced at £6.00 and features the work of several local photographers.

To buy the calendar online click here.

Our Rockwell Goss Community is an eight-unit, web offset, lithographic press incorporating a four-colour printing tower. This allows us to produce our local newspaper The Shetland Times, the Orkney & Shetland Standard, various special event feature pull-outs, and in 2005 a special edition daily full-colour newspaper for the Island Games sporting event which was held in Shetland over seven days.

The Goss began life at our previous premises at Prince Alfred Street, Lerwick in 1980 with only three units and a folder. Additional units have since been installed to meet our customers’ advertising needs and also a demand for increased pagination.

For the technically minded, some of our press specifications and related details are listed below:

• Maximum capacity, printed in one run using all eight units, produces a 40-page tabloid newspaper (including eight full-colour pages);
• Papers larger than 40pp are produced in separate runs and collated together;
• Five webs are run and split as they are formed on a v-folder;
• It takes three printers and two assistants to run a 40pp newspaper;
• Run speed is approximately 13,000 copies per hour;
• Single width units run blanket to blanket from paper housed within integral web reel stands;
• Reel statistics: width = 890mm, length 11750m, weight = 477kg, grammage = 45gsm;
• Approximately 18,000 copies of an 8pp newspaper are contained on one reel;
• An average of four full reels are used every week to produce the local newspaper;
• Approximately 11,500 copies of The Shetland Times are printed on a Thursday each week.

Please contact us if you are considering producing a project in a “newspaper” style format and we can discuss the technical specifications prior to providing you with a free quotation.

Click here to access our Contact Form.

Shetland Litho was presented with “Gold for Media” in the Green Apple Environment Awards at the Tower of London recently. One of the major international environmental awards schemes, and a feeder into the European Awards, the Green Apple Awards are now in their sixteenth year and attracted more than 500 nominations this year.

They are organised by The Green Organisation, an independent, non-political, non-activist, non-profit environment group dedicated to recognising, rewarding and promoting environmental best practice around the world. Shetland Litho was also invited to join the National Green Heroes, an elite group of environmental achievers who use their experience to help thousands of others – and the environment – around the world.

Other recent awards include Keep Scotland Beautiful Tidy Business Standard Silver Award 2010 & 2011 and the Shetland Environmental Award 2009 – demonstrating sustainability, innovation and best practice in the conservation and enhancement of Shetland’s environment.

When sourcing print equipment Shetland Litho is acutely aware of our environmental responsibilities. Our aim is to give our clients the opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint of their print orders by purchasing from Shetland Litho as well as allowing them to be part of, and have access to, a cleaner, greener printing process.

Our main commercial printing press, a five-colour B2 S29, was installed by Komori in 2006 and allows us to provide our clients with consistent, eye-catching promotional print products.

Our competitive pricing policy is guaranteed to give our customers the service and products they expect and deserve. Click here to view our online print quotation forms.

Please see our machine plant list here for complete technical specifications of all our machinery.

Most of our general commercial stationery and finishing work is produced on a carefully chosen selection of Heidelberg machinery. Customers can expect quick turn-around of jobs due to the high productivity speeds of our equipment.

Cost-effective, competitive quotations for all work are free.

Our competitive pricing policy is guaranteed to give our customers the service and products they expect and deserve.

Please see our machine plant list here for complete technical specifications of all our machinery.

Click here to view our online print quotation forms.

Our pre-press department has the latest Agfa Galileo VXT Computer-To-Plate system (CTP) installed allowing us to deliver precise image quality in an energy efficient manner. This benefits our clients through the production of sharp, high impact imagery on all of their products.

The CTP system has eliminated the use of photographic film, allows the use of water-based chemicals in all our processes, incorporates a violet-laser imaging head (which lasts for up to seven years) and limits waste, which all helps us greatly reduce the environmental impact of this process.

Please see our pre-press plant list here for complete technical specifications of all our machinery.

We aim to provide a more environmentally friendly, full-colour, commercial printing option and wider range of print formats than was previously available to our clients. This not only gives individuals and companies the opportunity to reduce the carbon footprint of their print orders by purchasing from Shetland Litho but allows them to be part of, and have access to, a cleaner, greener printing process.

Recent awards include Green Apple Environmental Gold Award for Media Scotland 2010, Keep Scotland Beautiful Tidy Business Standard Silver Award 2011 and the Shetland Environmental Award 2009 – demonstrating sustainability, innovation and best practice in the conservation and enhancement of Shetland’s environment. We have also achieved the following increase in orders for recycled paper which we hope to sustain and improve on: 2008 – 24 orders; 2009 – 34 orders; 2010 – 72 orders.

Our recent improvements now enable us to offer clients the following environmental benefits:

Printing Press

• Energy Consumption – Reduced energy consumption through use of high efficiency invertor motors on our press. The integrated automation and digital-ready structural design of the press also reduces make-ready waste and times.
• Noise Countermeasure – Due to the build structure the press runs much quieter than the previous conventional lithographic machinery and therefore reduces noise pollution.
• Waste Avoidance – The “KHS High Speed Inking System” automatically sets ink levels, dramatically reducing set-up time and cutting paper waste and the “overs” that are required for jobs.
• Vacuum packed ink cartridges eliminate ink “skinning” and therefore ink consumption is reduced and ink wastage eliminated.
• Oil wastage is reduced through the installation of an oil cleaner with integrated oil pump.
• Ability to run a larger maximum paper size allows us to impose jobs in a more cost-effective manner and reduces paper waste.
• Alcohol Free – We have configured our press to allow us to run alcohol free, therefore completely eliminating the use of isopropyl alcohol from the process.

Computer to Plate Processing System (CTP)

• Energy Consumption – The Galileo CTP system replaces three previously separate machines and uses power more efficiently.
• As the plate exposure, carriage, development and drying processes are all housed within the Galileo system it is a much more energy efficient procedure.
• Waste Avoidance – Consistent density/tonal range quality reduces the need for remakes and, with advanced screening, the reduction of dot gain in turn reduces the amount of ink consumption on the press without loss of print quality.
• Water and solvent usage levels are closely observed through the use of factory fitted monitoring equipment.
  Used chemicals are secured, stored and transported to a company specialising in the safe disposal of such waste.
• We now use water-based chemicals for our pre-press process. Waste chemicals produced are disposed of following best practice guidelines.

Proofing System

• Energy Consumption – The PRO7800 has replaced two previously separate machines, improving energy efficiency.
• Exposure times have been cut from five separate ultraviolet exposures to one single digital print output thus eliminating the use of energy sapping ultraviolet lamps.
• Waste Avoidance – The amount of raw proofing materials previously used has been reduced from six sheets per proof to one single sheet per proof.
• Recycling – Used aluminium plates from all of our printing presses are securely stored and transported to a company specialising in recycling for onward use.

Paper Suppliers

All of our main suppliers have achieved the ISO14001 environmental management standard. We actively purchase papers that have come from traceable and sustainable sources and conform to the Forestry Stewardship Commission’s policy on inclusive and shared responsibility for setting high social, environmental and economic standards for forest management.

Local Government

Each week production of The Shetland Times newspaper inevitably leads to some pre-consumer waste newsprint being produced during the make-ready process. An agreement with Shetland Islands Council now sees this waste being collected each Friday morning before being shredded for re-use as bedding material for animals (local horse stables etc) within the isles.

Sustainability

With every purchase of new machinery we make in the future Shetland Litho intends to improve not only on our technical and production capabilities, but continue to increase our environmental credentials. Some benefits from our actions will also be inextricably passed on to the clients who choose to use our greener printing services.

General Waste Avoidance

Employees are all encouraged to ensure simple measures like shutting down computers rather than leaving on stand-by, and switching off lights in various departments that are not in use, is carried out on a daily basis.

Our factory heating system is now connected to the local Waste to Energy plant making the previous oil burning boiler redundant. This has reduced, and helped provide a greener alternative to, our overall energy consumption.

Packaging (boxes, wrappers etc) received from outside suppliers/sources are all re-used where possible to avoid wastage or unnecessary use of unused packaging materials.

Environmental Credentials

We currently offer a wide selection of graded recycled papers to our customers. Some of these grades are produced using 100% recovered fibres which have been recycled purely from waste products. Others are a mixture of de-inked pre/post consumer waste mixed with virgin fibres and are selected depending on our clients’ requirement. For example, we currently order a paper that is produced from 50% de-inked post-consumer waste, 25% pre-consumer waste and only 25% virgin fibre (samples available on request). These mixed source substrates are produced from recycled wood or fibre and come from well managed forests and other controlled sources with a proven chain of custody.

Shetland Litho and Shetland Times staff managed to raise over £1500 for Mens Cancer Charities by taking part in Movember!

The rules are simple: you have to be clean shaven on the 1st November then don’t shave your moustache again until the 1st December, while good folk give you sponsorship money. The event originated in Australia in 2003 and has since grown to become a worldwide charity fundraiser, last year taking in over £26m for male cancer charities.

This was our final moustache update photo – featuring props! It also appeared in The Shetland Times. Thanks to everyone who donated money to a very worthy cause! All the sponsorship money is now in and has been sent off to the Charity.

For more information on this charity, visit: http://uk.movember.com