Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

In the third quarter of this year, from July to September, the registered population of Shetland rose to 23,190 although the actual population was higher with many temporary workers not registered locally.

Campaigners for Shetland Divest have criticised an investment report prepared for the Shetland Islands Council by financial consultants Isio.

The telecommunications regulator Ofcom has issued guidance on how it will authorise the use of spectrum bands used by the UK’s mobile network operators for satellite direct to device services.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency is calling on people in Shetland, and across Scotland, to take part in a public consultation on the future of the water environment.

The 129 metre Faroese container ship Selfos is at the Greenhead Base for engine repairs after being towed there by the 57 metre Norwegian anchor handler BB Ocean, also being towed alongside by the Knab and pushed alongside by the Kebister.

After seven months of standing in for the Lerwick lifeboat Michael and Jane Vernon, while it was undergoing a six-month major refit at the RNLI lifeboat centre in Poole, the Severn-class relief lifeboat Fraser Flier headed off to Aberdeen.

SSQC or, in full, Shetland Seafood Quality Control, which has provided third-party preventative auditing and hazard analysis on food safety, including independent quality assurance for the seafood industry, has changed its name to better reflect its current, and expanding, services.