Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Member of the Shetland Islands Council Moraig Lyall has told a meeting of the council’s policy and resources committee that trying to make progress on reducing the number of council offices “feels like walking through treacle” with everything “pushed back further and further”.

The Scottish government’s 2026 winter vaccination programme is now underway, with the NHS Shetland programme also underway.

The Scottish Parliament's rural affairs committee has written to the cabinet secretary for climate change and rural affairs to consider a potential post-legislative scrutiny of the Islands Act.

Project partners of Operationalising Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, an initiative developing science-based solutions to help the European aquaculture sector adapt to, and mitigate, climate change, met in Lerwick on Tuesday and yesterday.

The cable ship CS Sovereign has returned to Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour after emergency repair, 50 nautical miles west-south-west Sumburgh, to the six year old Havfrue, America-Europe Connect-2 fibre-optic submarine cable from New Jersey to Blaabjerg in Denmark.

White fish box landings: 6 boats landed about 1200 boxes.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 229 metre Viking Saturn on arrival from Bergen and departure for Aberdeen.

Shetland Arts is inviting the whole of Shetland to help shape the bid for Lerwick to become the UK's first Town of Culture. Lerwick is one of 15 towns shortlisted from nearly 400 applicants and it is one of six towns competing in the small town category.