Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

So far there have been no reports in Shetland of puffins being washed-up, but there have been along the coast of the Moray Firth and of Aberdeenshire.

Signatures opposing the closure of the Scalloway swimming pool, hard copy and now on-line, are now well over 2000.

UHI Shetland has launched a Marine Mammal Memories project to collate marine mammal memories of the past.

The Tingwall, Whiteness and Weisdale Community Council has called for consideration of the visual impact of the ammonia plant proposed by Statkraft for Tagdale. [LDRS]

There are indications that the threat of increased council tax on second, and long-term empty, homes in Shetland has helped to bring some of those properties back into occupation. [LDRS]

The former director of children’s services, Helen Budge, has attended an investiture at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh to receive her MBE from Anne, Princess Royal.

Figures from Scottish Water and Water UK confirm that, although bills from Scottish Water are rising, they will be on average £107 a year less than in England.