Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

There has been the first ever medical evacuation from the floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank, although there have been two previous medical evacuations from support vessels in the Rosebank field.

The pay dispute by Unite member ICTS baggage security staff at Aberdeen airport has been resolved. They had been due to strike every second day from Monday until the 1st of August.

The internet service outage that started on Thursday affected internet customers in different parts of Shetland.

Meanwhile O2 has said that it will be carrying out essential work at the 5G Bressay base station next week, stating that this will be to improve the local network.

Living Lerwick, operator of the town centre business improvement district, has issued its business plan to members as it prepares for a renewal ballot for a fourth BID period for five years from later this year to 2031.

A study has produced the most detailed analysis yet of how climate change will affect Orkney, with much of the study likely to apply to Shetland.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland remains at the normal level for water scarcity.

The well-known scam, claiming to be from BT and offering to help with an issue with an internet connection, appears to be targeting local landline numbers again. This is known as the Tech Support or Broadband Impersonation scam and is regarded as dangerous.