Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The yachts in the Shetland Race are making their way to Lerwick with the first two, the Norwegian Ender Peal and the German Haspa Hamburg, arriving this morning after a very direct voyage.

This year’s phase of the Lerwick Port Authority’s Lerwick harbour dredging project is back in Dales Voe from the north harbour, where there was blasting as well as dredging.

The Shetland Islands Council is proposing funding from increased council tax on second homes to fill the gap in national grant schemes for the additional cost of house building in Shetland.

Four sanctioned Afromax shadow-fleet crude oil tankers that sailed from the Gulf of Finland, intending to pass through the English Channel, but then diverted up the North Sea, passing east of Shetland, then as close as 20 nautical miles north of Shetland, have headed down the Atlantic Ocean west Shetland.

The Shetland Islands Council has confirmed its announcement in April that the Lerwick Town Hall will be closed to visitors and tourists, and to events such as weddings, in July, August and September, to allow for the building to be connected to district heating.

White fish box landings: 6 boats landed about 1400 boxes.

The cruise ships in Lerwick harbour today are the139 metre Hanseatic Spirit at Victoria Pier East on arrival from Westray and departure for Mousa and the 125 metre National Geographic Resolution at Mairs East arriving from Trenae in Norway and departing for Unst.

The Shetland Islands Council is launching a trial of collecting small electrical items, that cannot be reused or repaired, to boost recycling rates.