Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A cross-party letter, jointly signed by the members of the Scottish parliament who represent islands areas, has called on the UK government maritime minister, Keir Mather, to pause the implementation of proposals to move coastguard rescue officers to volunteer status.

Next Monday is the 60th anniversary of the opening of the joint Shetland Library and Museum on the Lower Hillhead, a then-regarded modernistic building which is now the refurbished library only.

The Shetland Islands Council has issued a notice to mariners advising that an underwater survey, using a remotely operated vehicle attached to an umbilical, is to be carried out in Yell Sound to try to locate, and to recover, the marine magnetometer that was lost on the seabed.

With the rocks that were identified in the main channel through Scalloway harbour now removed, the notice to mariners of a reduced depth in Scalloway harbour issued in May 2024 has been lifted.

In updated business cases to the Shetland Islands Council, consultants COWI and Stantec have listed the order in which work on the four proposed tunnels could get underway.

During the annual general meeting in Dundee of the Educational Institute of Scotland, and following an election earlier this year, Valerie Inkster, a teacher at Dunrossness Primary School, formally took up the role as EIS vice-president.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to go to an offshore support vessel in the Heather field 40 nautical miles east north-east of Unst. A crewman in need of medical attention was taken by the helicopter to Sumburgh. Before that helicopter was tasked to about 40 nautical miles west of Unst when signals from an emergency position indicating radio beacon were monitored but nothing was found.