Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

NHS Shetland is marking six months since the launch of its Walk-In Clinic, which has supported local patients and visitors with alternative ways of accessing urgent primary care.

The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has issued an alert to hospitals across Scotland that blood stocks are at “unprecedented low levels” due to a national shortage of blood donors.

The polar vortex, above the Arctic, has weakened and has shifted position in recent days, something that happens every winter. But for this to happen early in November is unprecedented in modern times.

The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to go to a fishing vessel 30 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh.

A liferaft belonging to the fishing vessel Kilda, which went missing off the north-east of Lewis, was recovered yesterday afternoon, washed-up near West Burrafirth.

The latest National Dental Inspection Programme results show that Shetland has the highest proportion in Scotland, of Primary 1 children, with no obvious experience of dental decay.

Proportionally, the Shetland Islands Council handles a significantly smaller number of discretionary housing payments than most other areas of Scotland.