Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Beatrice Wishart has spoken ahead of a Scottish parliament debate on compensation for WASPI women. This comes after data from the House of Commons library estimated that 331,780 women in Scotland could be affected by the change in pension age.

Following a consultation by the Shetland Islands Council, a 20 miles per hour speed limit has now been formally proposed for Scalloway.

The sandeel dispute between the UK and the European Union is to be heard for three-days next week at a trade tribunal hearing of the Permanent Court of Arbitration in the Hague.

The 50 year old, ten-metre, scallop boat Craignair remains hard fast on the south side of Samphrey, at the south end of Yell Sound.

The same coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was on four offshore medical evacuations at the weekend.

The energy firm Ovo, which is still the dominant electricity supplier in Shetland since it took over Scottish Hydro Electric, which in turn goes back to the days of the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board, has again done badly in customer satisfaction.

The two redundant fuel tanks at the Gremista power station are being removed to make space free for a urea-blending plant to reduce nitrous oxide emissions.