Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It has been confirmed that the decommissioning of TAQA’s North Cormorant platform topsides will be at the Dales Voe Base rather than at Able Seaton Port on Teesside, as had been previously suggested.

Ahead of the arrival of the North Cormorant, the decommissioners, Brown & Mason, are inviting people next Tuesday to a drop-in information event about the upcoming arrival and decommissioning of the North Cormorant topsides and to meet the teams involved.

The four warships from Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One, are back guarding and patrolling subsea infrastructure around Shetland and Orkney, after a weekend rest stay in Kirkwall harbour.

As Jim Fairlie, the Scottish government minister for agriculture, marine & the islands, completed his three day and two night visit to Shetland yesterday, it has emerged that he has been gauging opinion about the future protection of Scottish coastal waters, ahead of the formal consultation exercise.

White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 1000 boxes. Pelagic fish landings: The Antarctic is landing herring at Lerwick.

Qualifications Scotland has highlighted Ellie Sandison, who works as learning and engagement assistant at the Shetland Museum and Archives, as an example of how vocational qualifications and work-based learning can open doors that a traditional academic route might not,

Member of the Scottish parliament for Shetland, Hannah Mary Goodlad, has welcomed the funding award from the Scottish government's Islands Programme Fund to three projects in Shetland.