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  • New freedom of information figures show that the Gilbert Bain Hospital had the ninth highest ambulance turnaround time in Scotland between the end of December and the end of May

  • In the first six months of this year, over 147 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway.

  • The internet service outage that started on Wednesday or Thursday and affected Vodafone internet and mobile customers in different parts of Shetland appears to have been resolved.

  • The nursery class at the Sandwick Junior High School has been given good and very good in an inspection by inspectors in June.

  • The purchase for £1.6 billion of the ITV programme and streaming networks by Sky, and effectively Sky’s owner Comcast, is unlikely to have any impact on the production of the crime drama Shetland by Silverprint Pictures, which is a division of ITV Studios. This is because ITV Studios is not a part of the package being purchased by Sky, and Shetland is also commissioned from Silverprint Pictures by the BBC.

  • White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 800 boxes.

  • The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 289 metre Crown Princess at anchor on arrival from Dover and before departure for Reykjavik.

  • The Unite union has clarified that the strike action at Aberdeen airport has been suspended and not yet resolved. Unite member ICTS baggage security staff at Aberdeen airport are voting on a new pay offer.

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