Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The first of a series of proposals for traffic calming measures in Lerwick had been approved, starting with Gilbertson Road and Belld Road.

The Air Accidents Investigation Branch report has been published into the, then, 26 year old Loganair ATR 42-500, which experienced a loss of multiple flight deck displays for three seconds, during the climb from Aberdeen Airport, heading for Sumburgh Airport, in August 2022.

Parliamentarians Alistair Carmichael and Beatrice Wishart and would-be Liberal Democrat parliamentarian Emma Macdonald, who lived her teenage years growing up in Yell, visited the Brough Store in Burravoe at the weekend.

The cruise ship industry is reassuring American customers that it safe to come to Europe to join cruise ships despite possible responses to American action against Iran.

Of the 129,972 passengers on the 127 cruise ship visits to Lerwick harbour last year, the most by nationality, at 40 per cent, came from the United States.

In an article in the journal Nature, it has emerged that researchers who studied hundreds of scientific studies, and hazard assessments, have calculated that about 90 per cent underestimated baseline coastal water heights.

Last year Highland News and Media took over the Shetland Times newspaper title and archives only, employing journalists and sales staff. Shetland Times Limited sold property and assets, but retained the bookshop and book publishing, renaming the company Shetland Bookshop Limited. Now the publishing part had published its first book under the Shetland Bookshop name.