Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Shetland Islands Council has explained that a decision in February last year to increase fees for short-term let-licences was made in order to better reflect the cost of operating the short-term let-licence service by the council’s environmental health team.

During a debate on food price inflation in Westminster Hall, Alistair Carmichael spoke on the need for more government action on fairness in the food supply chain.

The Lerwick lifeboat and the coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh undertook an exercise in Breiwick.

There have been responses to the announcement by the Shetland Recreational Trust on the planned closure of the Scalloway swimming pool and the moving, from the beginning of April, of the services to other sites, including the Clickimin Centre pool.

The Post Office has announced that the Burravoe Post Office is to re-open in the middle of March at the new location of the Brough Store, following the closure last July of the branch at Westerleigh.

The Shetland Library has published the list of the most borrowed books last year.

As was suggested on SIBC, it has been confirmed that the 333 metre very large crude carrier Bella-1, renamed Marinera, under the command of US forces and currently bunkering and taking on stores off Burghhead, is to be taken to the United States, probably off Galveson to join other seized VLCC and Afromax tankers.