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  • This (Friday) morning, before 8 am, there was a two-vehicle road accident, described by the police as serious, near Mulla in Voe.

  • Shetland decided against a visitor levy, but today (Friday) Edinburgh has become the first area of Scotland to introduce the levy.

  • Tomorrow (Saturday) afternoon the Shetland Young Promoters Group is holding a child-friendly under 10s disco called Blast!

  • In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland remains at the normal level for water scarcity, as does Orkney and most of the west of Scotland.

  • Sixteen young people left on the Hjaltland on Thursday night to take part in Sail Training International’s Tall Ships Races 2026.

  • The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked twice, but the first was cancelled in favour of a Norwegian infield helicopter.

  • It has been estimated that three-quarters of Russia's shadow fleet tankers are now passing east, north and west of Shetland instead of through the English Channel.

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