Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The visit to Victoria Pier East on the 10th of August by the 89 metre former Hurtigruten vessel Nordstjernen has been cancelled. This was after the 70 year old Nordstjernen sustained damage after striking a quay in the Imperial Shipyard in Gdańsk.

Work is getting under way, on the outskirts of Lerwick, on the north side of the Hill of Dale, on the substation for the nearby Mossy Hill wind farm.

The drilling and blasting platform Rockmate is working off the North Ness in Lerwick harbour. This means that the NorthLink freight and passenger vessels have to come and go by the north entrance.

A meeting of the Shetland Islands Council’s policy and resources committee heard that there is increasing pressure on staffing elections in Shetland. [LDRS]

Traffic management assistance has been supplied to the measurement company Vaisala to so that it can safely undertake annual maintenance work to the road weather station and road sensors along the main road at Gulberwick.

Work to rectify a drainage issue in the south playground of the Bell’s Brae Primary School is underway and it is expected to be to be completed tomorrow.

The Lerwick lifeboat, the coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh and the 61 metre live fish carrier Inter Barents responded to a Mayday relay of a personal locator beacon activation from near Aith Wick north of Cunningsburgh.