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  • The Unite union has highlighted the 4.2 per cent wage rise, backdated to the beginning of April, that it has secured for North Air tanker drivers at Scottish airports, including Sumburgh airport.

  • A team from Headland Archaeology has arrived back in Shetland. Headland Archaeology previously worked in partnership with SSE Renewables for the Shetland Heritage.

  • With less than three weeks until the Scottish parliament election, the Scottish Greens co-leader Ross Greer has been in Shetland.

  • The SNP Shetland candidate, Hannah Mary Goodlad has pointed to some significant wins for Shetland in the SNP national manifesto.

  • There have been questions in telecomunmications circles on a pledge in the SNP manifesto of an extra subsea fibre telecommunications cable to increase resilience to Shetland.

  • The floating production storage and offloading vessel the Petrojarl Rosebank, due to be anchored in the Rosebank field 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst, is heading through the English Channel.

  • SSEN Transmission has confirmed the completion of the new £23 million, 22 kilometre, 132 kilovolt electricity transmission link between the Kergord sub-station and the Gremista grid supply point, including the soon-to-be-completed battery park and the Gremista soon-to-be-standby power station.

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