Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

In making his fourth visit to Shetland since becoming first minister, this time while on an election campaign, John Swinney said that that rural and island communities in particular were paying the price of the cost of living crisis, with higher fuel and energy costs.

While here, Mr Swinney, along with the SNP Shetland candidate, Hannah Mary Goodlad, took part in the on-going Da Voar Redd Up in the Scalloway area.

A new study led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, has for the first time in the UK linked national radon mapping data with cancer statistics. Radon levels in Shetland are relatively low compared to most of Orkney.

The floating production storage and off-loading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank has been sailing at about 6 or 7 knots up the west coast of Norway, accompanied by its Boka support vessels.

After weather-related delays, the Danish tug NH Server is finally towing the barge Selnes to Vagur in Faroe.

Brian Nugent, standing for Shetland as the Alliance to Liberate Scotland candidate, and also as the Alliance to Liberate Scotland lead candidate in the Highlands and Islands region, has claimed that that SNP is supportive of Dev Max, that is maximum devolution, rather than the independence the Alliance to Liberate Scotland supports.

The candidates in the Scottish parliament election are reminded that local radio does not have to give them equal time if they are not cooperative.