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  • The boarding and the arrest of the shadow fleet tanker Smyrtos in the English Channel could eventually have implications for Shetland.

  • A Freedom of Information obtained by the Scottish Liberal Democrats has found that under 100 parents in Shetland, and 22,760 parents across Scotland, were in arrears as part of their Child Maintenance Service arrangements with the Department for Work and Pensions.

  • White fish box landings: 7 boats landed about 1700 boxes.

  • The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 229 metre Viking Sky at Mair’s East arriving from Aberdeen and sailing for Bergen.

  • A study of the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland and west of the British Isles, shows a large patch of water, hundreds of miles across, getting colder while the rest of the Atlantic Ocean heats up.

  • UHI Shetland is looking, with the help of the public, at ways that the lecture theatre in Scalloway could be redeveloped.

  • There is to be a showcase of Shetland's seafood heritage at Fort Charlotte in Lerwick on Saturday.

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