Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The yachts in the Shetland race have been arriving in Lerwick harbour.

The first was the Norwegian Ender Pearl in a time of 22 hours 25 minutes, closely followed by the German Haspa Hamburg in a time of 22 hours 28 minutes and then the Swedish Luft in a time of 22 hours 44 minutes.

Meetings are currently taking place to assess progress in Shetland on The Promise, which was the outcome of the Independent Care Review in 2020.

Scottish Sea Farms won three major awards at the Aquaculture Awards 2026, with one for its work in Shetland.

This year’s phase of the Lerwick Port Authority’s Lerwick harbour dredging project is back in Dales Voe from the north harbour, where there was blasting as well as dredging.

Four sanctioned Afromax shadow-fleet crude oil tankers that sailed from the Gulf of Finland, intending to pass through the English Channel, but then diverted up the North Sea, passing east of Shetland, then as close as 20 nautical miles north of Shetland, have headed down the Atlantic Ocean west Shetland.

The Shetland Islands Council has confirmed its announcement in April that the Lerwick Town Hall will be closed to visitors and tourists, and to events such as weddings, in July, August and September, to allow for the building to be connected to district heating.