Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Liz Lloyd, the UK government’s parliamentary under-secretary of state in the department for science, innovation and technology, and the department for business and trade, and a UK government whip in the House of Lords, and who was made a life peer as Baroness Lloyd of Effra in October made a visit to Shetland on Friday.

After a stay in Lerwick harbour, and a visit to Dales Voe, Keynvor Morlift’s normally Falmouth-based 25 metre multicat Sarah Grey, and its 60 metre flat-top pontoon-barge Mormaen 15, have returned to Grutness Voe with a cargo of rock armouring.

With the cost of power for a typical all-electric house in Shetland to rise by about £10 per annum from January, except for those on fixed tariffs, Alistair Carmichael has spoken of the disappointment of a surprise increase in the energy price cap.

Alistair Carmichael and Beatrice Wishart have praised, what they called, a “positive and constructive” meeting at the Northern Isles Resilience Summit, held in Lerwick yesterday.

In the latest Sullom Voe shipping list, for the last four weeks, there were three visits from crude oil tankers, one taking away Brent crude and two taking away Clair crude. All three tanker visits exported oil abroad.

At the Northern Isles Resilience Summit not much new was learned, apart from the Scottish government to make its vessel monitoring system data available without a freedom of information request, improving transparency on the cause of cable damage, and the telecommunications regulator Ofcom to release new guidance to internet providers.

In the last six months there have been 20 crude oil tanker departures from the Sullom Voe Terminal. Only two took oil to a UK port terminal and all of the other 18 exported oil abroad. 70 per cent, or 14 tankers, took away Clair Crude and 30 per cent, or six tankers, took away Brent Crude.