Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

This is Scottish Apprenticeship Week and, to mark that, Ocean Kinetics is celebrating the role that apprentices play in strengthening its workforce and in securing the long-term future of the business.

Meanwhile Highlands and Islands member of the Scottish parliament, Ariane Burgess, noted that there were few apprenticeships and construction training courses for care-experienced young people in Orkney and Shetland.

Brian Nugent, the Alliance to Liberate Scotland candidate for Shetland in the Scottish Parliament elections in May, has said that the closure of Shetland College is a strange decision that should be investigated.

Speaking in the House of Commons, Alistair Carmichael warned the prime minister that, following the US and Israeli attacks on Iran, the people of the United Kingdom will not support any intervention that does not have a clear objective and a clear plan for the post-conflict period.

The floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank is on its way.

Orkney-based Highlands and Islands member of the Scottish parliament, Jamie Halcro Johnston, is the latest to oppose the plan by Scottish Labour, if Labour should gain power in the Scottish parliament, to take local health services out of local control.

The offshore oil and gas regulator NSTA has published maps which show the areas of the UK Continental Shelf that are considered to be of interest for future carbon storage appraisal.