Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A celebration on the success of sail training in Shetland was hosted on the Norwegian sail training vessel Sørlandet at Victoria Pier East.

Shetland member of the Scottish parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad, has welcomed the Scottish government’s new Programme for Government.

Moraig Lyall, the chair the Shetland Islands Council’s environment and transport committee is not in favour of introducing a subscription charge for using the dump in Lerwick.

Alistair Carmichael has welcomed the announcement that the UK government will implement an import ban on goods from Israeli settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank amid criticism of the growing abuses seen around such settlements.

Global Marine’s cable ship CS Sovereign, which has done much of the submarine cable repairs around Shetland and Orkney in recent years, is 50 nautical miles west-south-west Sumburgh for emergency repairs on the six year old Havfrue America-Europe Connect-2 submarine fibre optic cable from New Jersey to Blaabjerg in Denmark.

A S92 coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked for an NHS patient transfer. This was from Baltasound to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.

The design of two 140 metre freight-flex vessels has changed yet again with the two accommodation decks at the top now the full length of the superstructure, instead of stepping down deck-by-deck towards the stern, giving a sleeker outline.