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As expected, the German energy firm E.On has now agreed to buy Ovo to create one of Britain’s largest energy suppliers. Ovo has remained the dominant electricity supplier in Shetland since it took over SSE in January 2020, with SSE itself formed in 1998 from the merger of Southern Electric with Scottish Hydro-Electric, which was originally the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board.

The Shetland Story Slam event is to be held in Mareel on the 19th of June. Ahead of Slam, Shetland Arts is holding two storytelling workshops, led by Liz Musser and Ruth Oliver.

The cable ship CS Sovereign is back in the Rosebank field after sailing from Holmsgarth Five in Lerwick harbour. The CS Sovereign has been chartered to provide a five nautical mile sub-sea branch connection of the Shefa 2 Tórshavn to Maywick telecommunications cable to the upcoming location of the floating, production, storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank.

The last of the scaffolding, that had been surrounding the 123 year old Garrison Theatre since last summer, is being removed.

Shetland’s newly-elected member of the Scottish Parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad, is one of 64 newbies, in the largest number of new members of the Scottish parliament after an election since the first election in May 1999.

Shetland’s sail training vessel, the 126-year-old former fishing vessel the Swan, will host an open day this weekend to allow the public to view the forepeak which was upgraded over the winter months, including the toilet, shower and galley.

Offshore helicopter operations, at Sumburgh Airport and at Aberdeen Airport, are top of the agenda at Offshore Energy UK’s offshore aviation conference in Aberdeen next week.