Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Alistair Carmichael has responded to being banned from travelling to Russia in the latest Russian sanctions list. Mr Carmichael called this a “point of pride”, adding that he was only surprised that the ban had not come sooner, even thinking that he had been banned many years ago, after working in March 2022 with people in Orkney and Shetland to secure a block on Russian tankers from UK ports.

The Shetland Islands Council’s planning committee has approved Statkraft’s proposed energy substation near the Ladies Drive junction with the A970, to feed into the SSE Transmission local grid overground and underground network.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to an offshore standby vessel 95 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh. A crewman in need of medical attention was taken to Sumburgh.

The National Theatre of Scotland, which had been coming to Shetland for many years with a range of performances, is back at Mareel next Monday and Tuesday. This is with a brand-new show called Through the Shortbread Tin.

A court order, known as a declarator, is to be issued by judge Lady Ross to ensure that the legal obligations of state schools in Scotland are clear in that they must provide single-sex toilets for pupils.

White fish box landings: boats landed about 1200 boxes

The Shetland Islands Council’s roads service has advised of hot tar patching works, which is already being rolled out across five areas of the north mainland and will be lasting into the first week of May.