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Tesco, the UK’s biggest retailer, as well as Shetland’s biggest retailer, has launched a price-fixing lawsuit against salmon farmers, many operating in Scotland, including one that has assets in Shetland.

There has been a second coastguard offshore platform medical evacuation. The latest had been delayed because of the weather.

A project by the Seafarers’ Hospital Society aims to tackle the risk of heart-related fatalities in fishermen, particularly when on board a vessel and far from immediate medical help. Most coastguard medical evacuations from offshore, including from fishing boats, are medical, rather than injury.

Meanwhile, a coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to the Thistle Alpha platform, 65 nautical miles east-north-east of Unst. This was to take a platform worker in need of medical attention to Sumburgh.

With the Shetland Islands Council to approve its budget for the next financial year at a meeting next Tuesday, some of the proposals are becoming public, including the already revealed proposed council tax rise of 5 per cent and rent rise of 7 per cent. Now it is being proposed that public transport fares should be frozen, as they were last year.

Ithaca Energy, the 20 per cent owner of the Rosebank oil field west-north-west of Unst, with shares in Cambo, Tornado and Schiehallion, also west of Shetland, and in the Mariner field east-south-east of Sumburgh, has said that that last year was “transformational”.

In the latest Sullom Voe shipping list, for the last five weeks, there were three visits from crude oil tankers, one taking away Brent crude and two taking away Clair crude.