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The 23-bedroom Scalloway hotel on Shetland has fallen under administration following "a challenging couple of years trading" and in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, with 17 jobs made redundant. After examining the company's choices, directors Peter and Caroline Mckenzie chose to close the hotel and select administrators. Stuart Robb and Michelle Elliot of Leonard Curtis Business Rescue & Recovery were appointed joint administrators of the Sea Door, which ran the hotel, on 25 March.
Robb stated: "Regardless of the hotel having a strong order book in tourist season, business had experienced a considerable decrease in turnover over the winter durations in current years, principally due to the decline in the oil and gas sector and increasing overheads, which led to the business experiencing capital problems." Unfortunately, having evaluated scallowayhotel.com trading and financial performance and in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, it is not possible to reopen the hotel and, as such, 17 workers have actually been made redundant with immediate result.
We are working with rate to ensure the workers impacted by redundancy are supplied with the finest assistance possible.".
I 'd long been interested by Shetland, the cluster of islands halfway between Scotland and Norway. After seeing the BBC police procedural Shetland whose third series was shot in the archipelago previously this year to go back to our screens in 2016 and with the Shetland Noir crime-writing festival happening in the capital, Lerwick, this month, I decided to make the long trek north to see the bleak, inspirational landscapes for myself.
Additionally, the crime-writing fest highlights another link, commemorating the islands' centuries-old Scandinavian heritage Shetland was colonised by the Vikings and for centuries was a Norwegian province. The very first challenge was arriving. It's really even more from London to Lerwick than it is to Berlin or Bilbao. The "most authentic", if not the fastest way, to reach Shetland is "to take the over night ferry" from Aberdeen, one islander advised me ahead of time (although you can also fly there from the Granite City).