Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Statkraft, the Norwegian energy operator of the proposed eight-turbine, 36 Megawatt, windfarm at Mossy Hill and the Hill of Dale, between Lerwick and Scalloway, is considering two bothy style shelters, with seating, for the public, one at the north end of the wind farm and the other at the south end.

As work continues in the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst, to prepare the floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank for operations from the beginning of next year, more than a dozen Labour members of the UK parliament have expressed concerns in parliament about Rosebank.

A study has calculated that older people in Shetland and in Orkney are missing out on an estimated £779,000 of Pension Credit every year.

The Shetland Library is hosting, what it calls, Words to Warm the Winter events this month, as part of the National Year of Reading, with the spotlight on reading, poetry and wellbeing and a focus on talented local writers.

The Shetland Islands Council’s road service is to attend to a drainage issue on the main A970 road at the Skelberry Junction at Robin’s Brae.

In its statement in response to the latest bomb-threat e-mails received by schools, the Shetland Islands Council has given an indication of its likely attitude to such obviously hoax e-mails in the future.

A report to come before a meeting of the Shetland Islands Council’s education and families committee on Monday states that statutory consultations on the closure of the Burravoe Primary School and of the Skeld Primary School are the recommended way forward. []LDRS]