Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Shetland’s newly-elected member of the Scottish parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad, has been given a role in the Scottish government as one of twelve ministers, reporting to the eight cabinet secretaries in First Minister John Swinney’s slimmed down cabinet.

The Lerwick lifeboat was launched on service to help when a dog went through the fence and down the banks at the Knab, near the east side of the Horse’s Head.

The case for tunnels between islands was taken to the House of Commons yesterday, with the Shetland Islands Council’s depute leader Gary Robinson, and others, addressing the members of the house’s Scottish Affairs Committee.

At a meeting yesterday of the trade body Offshore Energies UK with UK energy industry leaders, over the worsening energy crisis from the war in Iran, there was a call for the immediate prioritisation of domestic energy production, that being offshore oil and gas as well as renewables.

White fish box landings: 9 boats landed about 2600 boxes.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 91 metre Sea Spirit at Mairs East on arrival from Fair Isle, departing for Papa Stour.

The Shetland Islands Council roads service has advised of road resurfacing work Whalsay, Lunna and Kergord and continuing until the end of June.