Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Why the UK government cannot explain the cost of its digital ID card has been challenged by Alistair Carmichael.

The Shetland County Drama Festival is over for another year, and on the last night 16 awards were presented to groups and to individuals. Some of the awards go back almost 80 years, with the original presenters of those awards now almost forgotten, with no complete records. Now is the time, before it is too late, to establish who they were, some originally presenting the awards and others named in memorium.

Book review: The first book under the Shetland Bookshop is the thirty-page A4 format young children’s book Do you play an instrument by Quarff musician Jenna Reid with illustrations by Jennifer Mijatović.

After the Liberal Democrats put forward proposals for a price cap for those who rely on heating oil, which were backed by Alistair Carmichael because of the wide use of heating oil in Shetland and in Orkney, the UK chancellor of the exchequer Rachel Reeves has said that she has "found the money" to help.

The Shetland Islands Council has confirmed that there is an ongoing conversation” around the idea of the council receiving government funding towards the cost of running its inter-island air service. [LDRS]

Shetland Arts’ Even Here, Even Now has been awarded funding of £200,000 through the Culture Collective initiative, administered by Creative Scotland.

Keep Scotland Beautiful is encouraging everyone in Shetland to take part in SpringCleanScotland, which started onnFriday and continues until the 24th of April and is now is linked to Shetland’s Da Voar Redd Up.