Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A project led by the University of Cumbria, in partnership with UHI Shetland, is engaging with mussel farms, salmon farms and creel fishing boats owners in Shetland to trial small acoustic recorders to understand underwater sound and the movement of whales and dolphins around Shetland.

Ariane Burgess has highlighted the increasing likelihood of the collapse of the Gulf Stream and the major impact this could have on Scotland, especially Shetland.

NHS Shetland has given an update on the flu and covid vaccination programme for those eligible to have vaccines this winter.

Beatrice Wishart has written to Jonathan Allan, the interim chief executive of Channel Four. This was after a number of people in Shetland claimed there was the misrepresentation of Fair Isle knitting in the new Channel 4 show called Game of Wool: Britain’s Best Knitter.

Following a meeting of councillors in private in September, a restructure of the management of the Shetland Islands Council is likely. [LDRS]

From November next year, offshore crew change helicopters based at Sumburgh, and elsewhere, will only be able to carry workers that have a maximum clothed weight of 19 and half stone.

It emerged on Friday that Sky, owned by American media and entertainment company Comcast, which is also owner of Universal Pictures, Dreamworks and NBC, is in discussion with ITV for a takeover to create a large UK-focussed streaming enterprise. So far it looks likely that this will not affect the production of future series of the TV crime drama Shetland. This is because the discussions are over ITV’s TV channels and ITVX, and they do not include ITV’s programme-production division including ITV Studios and Silverprint Pictures. ITV Studios, followed by Silverprint Pictures, have been the creators of all ten series of the TV crime drama Shetland.