Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Beatrice Wishart has invited Tom Daley and the Channel Four Game of Wool team to Shetland. This was after Ms Wishart wrote to Channel Four’s interim chief executive, Jonathan Allan, highlighting, what she said was, the misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting in the first episode of the new Channel Four show Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter.

Meanwhile Shetland’s Organisation for Knitters has launched a croud-funder appeal to help preserve, promote and protect Shetland's heritage knitting skills and culture.

A new independent study for the trade body Salmon Scotland has shown that farmed salmon adds £91 million a year to Shetland’s economy, although most of that goes directly to the Norwegian and Canadian owners of the salmon farms.

In the latest employment statistics for Shetland, there were 160 claimants in October, down 40 or 20 per cent on October last year.

Alistair Carmichael has backed calls by the Liberal Democrats for a 5 per cent reduction in VAT for pubs, restaurants and other hospitality and entertainment businesses at the budget.

NHS Shetland has commented on the involvement of its staff in the current, and previous, series of the TV crime drama Shetland.

The Shetland Islands Council has issued notices of defective reinstatements on sections of the A970 road between Sand Water and Petta Water.