Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

During a meeting of the full Shetland Islands Council yesterday, Lerwick South councillor John Fraser suggested that the council should engage on its funding concerns with the Scottish government’s new minster for public finance, that is Shetland member of the Scottish parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad. However Ms Goodlad has to keep her two parliamentry roles separate.

In the House of Commons, Alistair Carmichael highlighted, what he said was, the “mistake” of excluding food and drink producers from the UK government’s industrial strategy.

It has emerged that the refurbishment of the two blocks of NHS staff accommodation at Montfield in Lerwick is being undertaken by NHS Education for Scotland rather than by the Shetland NHS Board.

700 workers are set for summer strike action in pay disputes with companies based at Edinburgh Airport and Glasgow Airport, and this could impact on flights to and from Shetland.

The 153 metre heavy-lift vessel BBC Amethyst is due from the Tyne at the Greenhead Base this evening, carrying reels for the Rosebank project.

White fish box landings: 9 boats landed over 1400 boxes. The landings so far this week are about 7100 boxes.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 229 metre Viking Sky at Mairs East on arrival from Bergen, departing for Aberdeen.

The Scottish Affairs Select Committee report into the UK government's clean power by 2030 ambition, has warned that the government's proposed mandatory community benefit scheme is insufficient and it calls for the minimum compensation rate to be increased by about two and a half times the amount Shetland is getting from SSE.