Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Following the cancellation of flights at Sumburgh airport on Sunday, because of weather damage to a telecommunications cable, there were four cancellations and five delays on Monday before the damage was repaired and flights got underway, the first being the mail plane from Glasgow at 11:10.

There were two power cuts in Shetland. One affected 54 customers in south-west Yell and the other affected 8 customers in Vidlin.

Historic Environment Scotland has launched a new public consultation inviting people in Shetland to give their views to help shape the future of some of the most important historic places and collections, including sites like the Mousa Broch and Jarlshof.

Highlands and Islands Scottish Greens member of the Scottish parliament Ariane Burgess has warned that both the Scottish government and UK government are failing nature and putting rural communities at growing risk.

In the first nine months of this year, over 254 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway.

According to the quarterly release by Public Health Scotland for the period from January to March on NHS Stop Smoking Services in Scotland, NHS Shetland had the lowest progress towards its annual local delivery plan standard.

Alcatel Submarine Networks has been commissioned by Faroe Telecom to carry out the repairs to the Shefa 2 cable and to source a repair vessel, but the nearest of their vessels are the Ile d’Ouessant, currently in Las Palmas, and the Ile de Bréhat in the Mediterranean Sea off Tunisia. However the repair vessel Cable Vigilance, which has repaired the Shefa 2 cable several time before, and is owned by Optic Marine Services, is berthed in Calais.