Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Cooke Aquaculture Scotland, which has salmon farms and shore stations in Unst and Yell, saw its net profit fall by 49 per cent to £6.1 million for the financial year ending last December.

At one point recently, more than 40 per cent of the beds in the Gilbert Bain Hospital were occupied by delayed discharges.

After a stay in the Lerwick small boat harbour, arriving from Aith, the 17 metre Severn Class relief lifeboat Roger and Joy Freeman is now on its way to Stromness, where it is due early Monday evening.

Following a pan-pan message, the Lerwick lifeboat was launched on service to the Czech-registered, 15 metre, aluminium-built expedition yacht Boomerang, which had partly broken its mast on rounding Sumburgh Head.

Also coordinated by the coastguard, the Bressay ferry Leirna provided assistance in an ambulance NHS patient transfer from Bressay.

The annual NATO-led naval exercise is over half-way through this year, ending around the 9th of October.

The Shetland Islands Council’s stand-in ferry Fivla is currently undergoing its annual docking maintenance at Shearers.