Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It was arranged for the Lerwick coastguard rescue team to go to Whalsay to identify ordnance found on the tideline near Brough. Meanwhile a coastguard rescue helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked on an NHS patient transfer.

Amjad Bseisu, chief executive of EnQuest, operator of the Sullom Voe Terminal, has confirmed that the six-well platform drilling programme by Odfjell Technology in the Magnus field, 70 nautical miles north-east of Unst, is getting underway.

And Ithaca Energy, which is sole owner of Cambo and has 20 per cent of Rosebank, both 85 nautical miles west and west-north-west of Unst, has said that it hopes to progress with Cambo after derisking the project and that production from Rosebank is on track to start in the coming months.

Meanwhile the 153 metre heavy-lift vessel BBC Amethyst arrived at the Dales Voe Base yesterday evening carrying reels for the Rosebank project.

For the first time ever, there has been a helicopter medical evacuation from the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst.

Plane spotters in Shetland will be looking out for overhead flights by the first of three new Wedgetail surveillance aircraft to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 100 metre Expedition at Victoria Pier East on arrival from Thurso departing for Kirkwall.

NatureScot has launched a consultation on Scotland’s peatlands. About half of Shetland is peatland, compared to about a quarter of Scotland.