Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It has been announced that the Shetland Library is to highlight accessible library services for people with sight loss and visual impairment.

Yesterday (Tuesday) was International Day for Women in Maritime. Although women crew-members are still rare on fishing boats locally, and throughout most of Scotland, there are women crew-members on inter-island ferries.

At the beginning of next month, UHI Shetland will be holding the 2026 fine art degree show at the Gremista campus in Lerwick, to celebrate the work of graduating students.

Cornwall Insight is predating that the cost per unit of electricity will rise in July by 12.7 per cent. This will particularly impact homes and business in Shetland, which are totally dependent on electricity with there being no mains gas.

Around 70 people from Shetland's public sector, community councils and community development organisations will get together later this week to begin shaping the next Shetland Partnership Plan.

The winner of the 2026 Rhoda Bulter Award was Liam Summers from Quarff, whose work, of a wall-hanging, was inspired by Caald Clods an Tinder, one of four of Rhoda’s poems that partipants could chose from.

There has been another helicopter NHS patient transfer by the coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh.