Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

From yesterday, offshore workers who are too heavy to fly on helicopters to offshore oil and gas installations, including from Sumburgh Airport, will be refused permission to board.

A week late, the scaffolding is finally being removed from what was originally the staff accommodation block of the Gilbert Bain Hospital, which was built between 1959 and 1961.

20,000 years ago, during the last ice-age, Shetland had its own independent ice sheet covering over 20,000 square miles and that was expected to returm in 10,000 years.

A group of pupils and staff at the Anderson High school have launched an £8000 project to commission new art-work to compliment the murals completed in 1963 by pupils Ian Coutts and Ian Guthrie, supervised by art teacher Charlie Forret, for the Bellview extension to the original Anderson High School.

After expanding to a 7-day service, and completing building improvements, the NHS Shetland walk-in clinic at Grantfield recorded 397 patients in September.

White fish box landings: 9 boats landed about 1900 boxes.

The Fair Isle ferry Good Shepherd IV, which developed mehnical problems when mid-harbour in Lerwick harbour on returning from Fair Isle two weeks ago, will be on the North Ness slip to have a propellor shaft fitted on the arrival of the replacement part from Norway.