Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Shetland Women football team has been drawn away against Rossvale Women’s Football Club in the second round of the Scottish Cup.

The S92 coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to a Scottish fishing boat, 75 nautical miles east-south-east of Sumburgh where a crewman was in need of medical attention.

With a First World War hand-grenade still in a shed at the back of the Lerwick Town Hall, the building, and Lystina House, remain closed to staff and the public. This means that it is not possible to access the diary of those who had an appointment today, in addition to yesterday,

Scottish government proposals suggest that Scotland's 32 councils could be replaced by six to 10 regional authorities but that separate set-ups would be required for Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles.

Flylogix, the Solent-on-Sea based unmanned aerial system specialist, has undertaken its first survey from Shetland into Norwegian waters with a remotely controlled unmanned aircraft.

White fish box landings: 4 boats landed over 500 boxes.

The Scottish Crofting Federation has announced that it has created a training programme designed to support crofters, farmers, smallholders and other small-scale producers to set up local food businesses using their own primary produce, with courses in Shetland next March.