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  • The Royal Institute of Navigation has issued a report on the threat to shipping from the jamming and spoofing of global navigation satellite systems, and other interference, with hundreds of vessels, maybe thousands, being affected every day leading to a "real risk to life".

  • Peter Campbell, a trustee of the Swan Trust and of Sail Training Shetland, has been honoured for his dedication to sail training.

  • There has been a power cut in Fetlar affecting 57 customers. Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks said that the fault was in the overhead lines.

  • The Shetland annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration is to be held in the Lerwick Town Hall on Thursday to provide an opportunity to reflect, and to remember.

  • Once again NorthLink has cancelled sailings for Tuesday night while flights at Sumburgh airport have been mostly on time.

  • Today is the Lerwick Up Helly Aa day and it will be a breezy day and night. Senior jarl is Lynden Nicolson, representing Knut the Great who ruled Denmark, Norway and England and was buried at Winchester. Junior jarl is Frankie Walterson, representing Sigtryggr who was king of Dublin and York.

  • Neo Energy Production UK, which assisted with development of the Penguins field, 60 nautical miles north-east of Unst, and is involved in production in fields in the East Shetland Basin and south-east of Sumburgh, has confirmed that the Piper Bravo platform, 90 nautical miles south-south-east of Sumburgh, has been shut down over a valve failure.

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