Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A second feasibility study could get underway in the coming months on a third sub-sea telecommunications cable between Shetland and the UK mainland.

Today is the day of the fourth Shetland Climate Festival.

The coastguard S92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked on an NHS patient transfer. This was from Papa Stour to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.

The scaled down Living Lerwick, which now focuses, with a couple of exceptions, on the mainly retail businesses along Commercial Street, and in the nearby lanes, for the five years of the new Business Improvement District scheme, is seeking a new BID manager and directors.

Alistair Camichael is moving his Shetland constituency office to 155 Commercial Street in just under three weeks. 155 Commercial Steet was best known up to over 20 years ago as Televiradio and before that it was Telenews and Olison’s stationers.

Pelagic fish landings: The Antares is landing herring at Lerwick and the Fraserburgh Grateful and the Charisma are waiting to land.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 132 metre Le Laperouse at Victoria Pier East on arrival from Rosyth and departure for Kirkwall. Two sail training vessels are in port, the Swedish Gunilla at Victoria Pier West and the Sorlandet at Holmsgarth 5 moving later to Victoria Pier East.

SSEN Transmission has said that, in collaboration with tech company Ross Robotics, seven additional four-wheeled robots are to be based across its high voltage direct current convertor stations, including the converter station at Kergord, to provide round-the-clock real-time monitoring.