Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands and Islands Ariane Burgess is the latest to criticise the decision by the Shetland Islands Council to approve planning consent for Scottish Sea Farms’ Fish Holm salmon farm,

There is also a growing demand that Scottish Sea Farms should respect the significant depth of feeling in Shetland against Fish Holm, and to withdraw the application or to find a compromise that is satisfactory to all that would be affected.

Despite the four-day delay, remaining at sea off the Tyne from Tuesday to Saturday the week before last, the NorthLink passenger ferry Hjaltland has completed is annual docking maintenance on time in the A&P drydock at Hebburn.

Shetland is mentioned a few times in the Epstein files, mostly in relation to oil and gas and subsea cables, but also as a code word, as in “Shetland is also going to Ibiza on the 8”.

In a response to a plea by the Scalloway Community Council, the Shetland Recreational Trust has confirmed that it had no viable alternative but to close the Scalloway swimming pool.

The Scottish Liberal Democrats helped the Scottish government pass the budget for the next financial year, starting in April. In exchange the Scottish Liberal Democrat secured a series of funding wins, including for island communities.

Intervening in a debate on rural mobile connectivity in the UK parliament, Alistair Carmichael called on telecommunications companies, which receive public investment, to have a stronger duty on cooperating on achieving wider mobile coverage in rural areas.