Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

NorthLink has cancelled its sailings for a third day in a row, blaming the weather. Meanwhile, also for a third day in a row, flights at Sumburgh airport have been mostly on time.

The Orkney member of the Scottish parliament Liam McArthur led the debate in the Scottish parliament highlighting the lack of funding allocated to islanders under the Scottish government's future farming investment scheme, with this also criticised by Shetland member Beatrice Wishart.

However the Highlands and Islands member of the Scottish parliament, Ariane Burgess, has claimed a win in the Scottish budget for the training of the existing, and of the next generation, of crofters, farmers and food producers.

Meanwhile Alistair Carmichael has said that evidence on the future of farming, delivered to the UK parliament by Minette Batters, the former head of the National Farmers’ Union, shows the urgent need for government action.

And in the House of Commons debate on the fishing industry, Alistair Carmichael called on UK government ministers to review, because of the impact on local fishermen, the limits placed on access by Norwegian fishing boats to waters around Shetland.

The Shetland Fishermen’s Association has confirmed, in the newly published Shetland Fishermen Yearbook 2026, that nine young men have joined the crews of Shetland’s whitefish fleet in the past year.

The Scottish government has announced that Shetland’s Dogs Against Drugs is to receive a one-off grant of £30,000.