Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish Affairs Select Committee report into the UK government's clean power by 2030 ambition, has warned that the government's proposed mandatory community benefit scheme is insufficient and it calls for the minimum compensation rate to be increased by about two and a half times the amount Shetland is getting from SSE.

In the House of Commons, Alistair Carmichael condemned the UK government’s intention to soften planned, but not yet introduced, sanctions on Russian oil and gas.

Members at the full meeting of the Shetland Islands Council paid tribute to the late Josie Simpson, who passed away in March.

Tavish Scott, chief executive of Salmon Scotland, has commented on a new UK free trade deal with the Middle East, which is expected to provide a boost for Scottish exports.

Shetland’s newly-elected member of the Scottish parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad, has been given a role in the Scottish government as one of twelve ministers, reporting to the eight cabinet secretaries in First Minister John Swinney’s slimmed down cabinet.

The Lerwick lifeboat was launched on service to help when a dog went through the fence and down the banks at the Knab, near the east side of the Horse’s Head.

The case for tunnels between islands was taken to the House of Commons on Wednsday, with the Shetland Islands Council’s depute leader Gary Robinson, and others, addressing the members of the house’s Scottish Affairs Committee.