Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Shetland Islands Council has advised of a planned multi-agency exercise around the council-owned Tingwall Airport ton Wednesday evening.

Islesburgh Drama Group has announced A Pop Up Panto Show, the group’s first ever pop-up pantomime, which will be held in Mareel at the end of the month.

The meeting of the Lerwick Community Council discussed the current hot topic of the “industrialisation” of Shetland from energy developments and the concern over the impact on everything from tourism to mental health.

The 28 year old, 17 metre, Severn-class, Lerwick lifeboat Michael and Jane Vernon has returned after a six-month major refit at the RNLI lifeboat centre in Poole, in Dorset.

The arrival of the last cruise ship of the year, the 219 metre Vasco da Gama, has been put back again.

Beatrice Wishart has called on the Scottish transport secretary, Fiona Hyslop, to deliver an immediate statement to parliament on the collapse of Eastern Airways.

In the Future Farming Investment Scheme, 59 Shetland-based applicants received just under £402,000 of the grant funding, or 1.88 per cent of the scheme’s £21.4 million budget.