Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It is not only fishing boat owners in Shetland that are concerned about the price of fuel, fishermen in the Western Isles have said that they need more government support to help deal with the rising cost of diesel. Even in Texas, shrimp fishermen are complaining that it costs $80,000 to refuel their vessels.

Fifteen year old Winnie Johnston is the 44th Shetland young fiddler of the year, winning the Frank Jamieson memorial trophy. She also won the senior open and the Martin Laurenson memorial trophy for the best played slow air.

With the floating production storage and off-loading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank expected to be berthed alongside in Ågotnes in the island of Sotra in Norway for some time, to undergo the regulatory commissioning of almost three years of reconditioning in Drydocks World Dubai, the support vessels that accompanied the Petrojarl Rosebank all, or part of, the way on the two month trip from Dubai are being redeployed.

With ten days to go until the Scottish parliament elections, the eight candidates standing for Shetland are running out of time to make their final appeals to voters.

The World Atlas has recommended Lerwick as one of eight small towns in the United Kingdom with unmatched friendliness.

White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 1000 boxes.

The German energy group E.ON is advancing plans to combine with energy firm Ovo. Ovo is still the dominant electricity supplier in Shetland since it took over Scottish Hydro Electric in January 2020. This in turn goes back to the days of the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board.