Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The count in the Shetland constituency of the Scottish parliament elections has been continuing at the Clickamin Centre . The turnout in Shetland is 64.1 percent, down from 66.1 percent in 2021. 82.6 percent of postal voters used their vote.

The Hjaltland Housing Association has responded to the ongoing public concern about dust from the Staneyhill housing development, including that expressed at the recent meeting of the Lerwick Community Council.

The long service and commitment of NHS Shetland community nurses and midwives have been celebrated by their colleagues.

The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to a fishing boat about 50 nautical miles west of Unst.

White fish box landings: The landings this week were 7545 boxes.

Pupils at the Baltasound Primary School have been working with the endangered species conservation programme Species on the Edge, and he dialect promotion group Shetland for Wirds, to find a local name for one of Shetland’s rarest beetles, the Plantain Leaf Beetle.

Shell, which used to have a base and jetty at Holmsgarth in Lerwick, is the latest energy company to announce huge profits for the first quarter of this year as a result of the Iran war.