Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A short-term-let licence application for a one bedroomed property in Park Lane in Lerwick has been approved by members of the licensing committee despite two objections. [LDRS]

A coastguard helicopter based at Inverness was tasked yesterday to go on an NHS patient transfer, the third from Foula since August.

The hit theatre show Deiseil, Dancing in Time is coming to Mareel on Friday.

Cooke Aquaculture’s new 18 metre work catamaran Cooke Challenger, built by KJ Hydraulik in Faroe, has arrived from Uyeasound at Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour.

It is becoming like the 1950s with increased sightings of Russian vessels off Shetland and Scotland, including more than 500 incidents where Russian vessels have been stationed above undersea cables linking Britain with Europe and the United States.

White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 1100 boxes

Crown Estate Scotland has said that it is working closely with the Scottish government, and agencies which regulate the aquaculture industry, to oversee a pilot project off the east of Shetland which will see aquaculture development being extended from the current three-mile limit to a new 12-mile zone.

85 year old Pushp Vaid, who captained the Chinook helicopter carrying offshore workers from the Brent field, when it crashed into the North Sea in calm weather, on the approach to Sumburgh Airport on the 6th of November 1986, has used artificial intelligence to recreate what happened.