Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Over £2 million has now been awarded by the Viking Community Fund to a range of projects and initiatives that support communities throughout Shetland.

The Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has set out his party’s ambition to work in partnership with the Shetland Islands Council on sub-dsea tunnels.

The Sovereignty party candidate in Shetland, Brian Nugent, has contributed to the party manifesto. The Sovereignty manifesto states that fisheries should exist for the benefit of the Scottish fishing industry.

The telecommunications regulator Ofcom has approved VodafoneThree’s request to use satellite technology to provide calls, texts and data to standard smartphones in the UK.

A report from the UK government's Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science has claimed that most of fishing quotas negotiated by the United Kingdom for this year were not line with scientific advice to ensure healthy stocks.

However this is likely to be disputed by fisheries organisations in Shetland and in Scotland and the UK government Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has said that its approach to setting catch limits was based on the best available scientific advice.

A cruise ship, the 216 metre Ambition, that was last in Lerwick harbour on the 23rd of October last year, and is next due on the 6th of May and on the 19th of August, has been used for the ISO certification of the AI-enabled ZOE man-overboard detection system.