Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Shetland Charitable Trust is holding its AGM on Thursday when the audited accounts for the year, to the end of March, will be signed off by the volunteer trustees. They will hear that the value of all of the trust’s funds stood at £453.9 million at the end. of the financial year.

A meeting of the Shetland Islands Council environment and transport committee heard that that council is considering a peatland restoration pilot project which it hopes could eventually involve up to 2,500 hectares a year.

The Shetland Islands Council is seeking views on the future of Burravoe Primary School and the already mothballed Skeld Primary School.

The cable ship CS Sovereign has been at Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour to prepare for an emergency repair on a transatlantic submarine fibre optic telecommunications cable in the Fair Isle Channel off Sumburgh.

White fish box landings: 6 boats landed about 1700 boxes.

The Andøya Space Centre in the north of Norway has beat the SaxaVord SpacePort in becoming the first in Europe to launch a rocket to deliver satellites into low earth orbit.

Meanwhile, subject to due diligence, the UK government is allocating £30 million in funding to the SaxaVord Spaceport, accompanied by £30 million in funding from private investors.