Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish government has confirmed that, hospitality businesses in Shetland, and in other islands areas of Scotland will continue to receive 100 per cent non-domestic rates relief in the upcoming 2025 to 2026 financial year.

A £40.7 million contract for Project Gigabit, tendered by the Scottish government and funded by the UK government, aims to bring gigabit-capable broadband to over 13,500 eligible premises across Orkney and Shetland.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to a platform 70 nautical miles east of Unst. This was to take a platform worker in need of medical attention to Tingwall.

Tonight’s sailings of the NorthLink passenger and freight vessels to and from Lerwick have been cancelled due to what NorthLink has called “adverse weather”.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency has issued the second flood warning this week for Shetland.

Christmas day still looks like being quite mild at 11 degrees, and dull, with moderate to fresh south-westerly wind.

Norway may be just across the North Sea from Shetland, with both sharing much the same the hydro-carbon deposits for oil and gas extraction and much the same wind for wind energy, but they are in different worlds for the price of electricity. Norwegians pay under 10 pence per unit of electricity. Householders in Shetland pay more than two and a half times that.