Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Latest official figures from National Records of Scotland for the quarter of April to June last year show that at the end of June the ratio of females to males in Shetland was widening again.

Loganair is offering fare-free flights for children aged 11 and under when they travel with a full-fare-paying adult.

Orkney based Scottish Green member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands & Islands Kristopher Leask has welcomed the cabinet secretary for transport’s commitment to hold an aviation summit with regional stakeholders.

The Shetland Charitable Trust is holding its AGM on Thursday when the audited accounts for the year, to the end of March, will be signed off by the volunteer trustees. They will hear that the value of all of the trust’s funds stood at £453.9 million at the end. of the financial year.

A meeting of the Shetland Islands Council environment and transport committee heard that that council is considering a peatland restoration pilot project which it hopes could eventually involve up to 2,500 hectares a year.

The Shetland Islands Council is seeking views on the future of Burravoe Primary School and the already mothballed Skeld Primary School.

The cable ship CS Sovereign has been at Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour to prepare for an emergency repair on a transatlantic submarine fibre optic telecommunications cable in the Fair Isle Channel off Sumburgh.