Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Scam calls pretending to be from NHS Shetland are being received in Shetland and have been reported to the Shetland Islands Council’s trading standards.

This is the Bressay Up Helly Aa day, and night, with guizar jarl George Young leading his squad and the festivities.

This is the ninth of this year’s fire festivals, with three still to come, including the South Mainland Up Helly Aa next week.

Following the current instability in the Middle East, and the price of domestic heating oil already increasing, Orkney based Highlands and Islands member of the Scottish parliament, Jamie Halcro Johnston, has pointed out that many residents in Shetland and in Orkney are dependent on oil-based heating.

There has been a coastguard towing exercise in Scappa Flow with the 112 metre NorthLink ferry Hamnvoe being towed by the coastguard emergency towing vessel Ievoli Black.

The Yell Sound ferry Daggri is due at Greenock on Saturday for its annual docking, after leaving Lerwick on Wednesday evening. The Hendra is on the North Ness slip for repairs, including its engine taken out.

The floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank is sailing down the Indian Ocean at over ten knots under its own power.