Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

More than 130 pupils from S2 at the Anderson High School attended the aquaculture careers day at the Clickimin Centre.

Alistair Carmichael raised concerns at urgent questions in the House of Commons challenging the UK government’s decision to approve a new definition of English Single Malt Whisky, allowing English Single Malt Whisky to be produced under different rules from Scotch Single Malt Whisky.

The Scottish government’s 2026 winter vaccination programme is now underway, with the NHS Shetland programme also underway.

The Scottish Parliament's rural affairs committee has written to the cabinet secretary for climate change and rural affairs to consider a potential post-legislative scrutiny of the Islands Act.

Member of the Shetland Islands Council Moraig Lyall has told a meeting of the council’s policy and resources committee that trying to make progress on reducing the number of council offices “feels like walking through treacle” with everything “pushed back further and further”.

Project partners of Operationalising Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, an initiative developing science-based solutions to help the European aquaculture sector adapt to, and mitigate, climate change, met in Lerwick on Tuesday and yesterday.

The cable ship CS Sovereign has returned to Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour after emergency repair, 50 nautical miles west-south-west Sumburgh, to the six year old Havfrue, America-Europe Connect-2 fibre-optic submarine cable from New Jersey to Blaabjerg in Denmark.