Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The man who died in the single-vehicle road accident near Bridge End on Thursday evening has been named by the police as Magnus Sinclair, aged 83. Magnus Sinclair is believed to have been the last person to have been born in Snarraness.

In the campaigning for the Shetland seat in the Scottish parliament elections, the Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate, Emma Macdonald, visited the Girlsta Hatchery and the Swarta Marine Farm.

Shetland First has expressed serious concern over the proposal by SSEN Transmission to develop a second interconnector to Shetland, more than three times the capacity of the first.

Shetland Arts has announced the full lineup for the Soup and a Show programme this year, with monthly performances from April to September.

In the first three months of this year, over 65 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway.

The over 5000 pensioners in Shetland now have a 4.8 per cent increase in their state pension for the next year.

The fishing industry has welcomed the story, carried on SIBC on Saturday, that wind farm developer Ocean Winds had confirmed that was handing back, to Crown Estate Scotland, the lease-option for the 500 Megawatt Arven South floating offshore wind farm.