Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It looks as if the wintry weather will last in some form until Friday, then warming a bit from Saturday with next week rising to the range of 4 to 8 degrees until towards the end of the month.

Today, on what was to be the first day of the third term, all schools are closed to staff and pupils. Also closed are the Eric Gray at Seafield centre, council-run youth clubs and council managed-facilities of the Islesburgh Community Centre and Central Café, the games halls at the Brae High School, the Gilbertson Park, the Sandwick Junior High School and the Scalloway Primary school and the North Loch Park 3G Pitch. NHS Shetland said that it was expecting to have reduced staffing at several health centres and at the Gilbert Bain Hospital. Coastguard rescue teams have been assisting in transporting NHS staff.

In the first white fish landing day in the new year, 7 boats landed about 2200 boxes at Lerwick.

In Shetland 369 accounts have been closed with outstanding council tax credit totalling £66,888, about half the Scottish average, with the value of the largest council tax account credit at £937.

There are predictions that 2026 will see a continuation of the decline in engagement in social media, particularly among younger people.

NHS Shetland has stated that all women who were known substance misusers were transferred to NHS Grampian for delivery and as a result NHS Shetland had zero number of babies born with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Was that snow shower a blizzard? Officially a blizzard is a driving snow-storm which lasts at least three hours, during which the wind is always above 30 knots, visibility is never greater than four hundred metres and the temperature is always lower than minus seven degrees.