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  • Alistair Carmichael has questioned UK government ministers, and officials, on future plans for highly protect marine areas, commenting that this has to be done in partnership with coastal, and island, communities and not to be imposed from on-high.

  • Despite Trump’s tariffs, Tavish Scott, the chief executive of salmon farming trade body Salmon Scotland, has said the farmed salmon sector still had great confidence that the United States would continue to buy the product.

  • Beatrice Wishart has written to Fiona Hyslop, the cabinet secretary for transport, expressing concerns over passenger safety in pod lounges on the NorthLink ferries.

  • The Shetland Amenity Trust has announced the patron for Shetland Wool Week 2025. This is the Shetland Guild of Spinners, Knitters, Weavers and Dyers.

  • Highlands & Islands Airports Limited has launched a customer feedback survey to identify needed improvements across its 11 airports, including Sumburgh.

  • NEO Energy, which assisted with development of the Penguins field and with production in fields in the East Shetland Basin and east-south-east of Sumburgh, has released offers of tenders for decommissioning.

  • Doctor Sally Huband organised a public meeting and information session to highlight that people living next to wind farms are not protected from audible turbine emissions.

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