Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

For around 70 years from early last century, volunteers in wooden-built coastguard lookout stations overlooking the sea throughout Shetland kept an eye on marine traffic.

This past weekend 15 volunteers from the North Yell area spent a day cleaning and painting the former look-out hut the top of the cliffs at Gloup Ness, known as the Blee Hut.

Following the appeal by Loganair for the Scottish government and the UK government to produce a strategy for essential routes that are not commercially viable, Liam McArthur has called on the Scottish government to "stop ducking this issue and show leadership".

In Unst, paper and card will now be picked up Thursday this week and not on Saturday. In Yell, paper and card collections normally scheduled for toda will now be picked up on Saturday.

Following the two-week demonstration programme across the Highlands and Islands in March, Loganair is to become Europe's first commercial airline to operate an electric aircraft fleet.

More remedial work is getting underway at the Grutness ferry terminal, once again to the rock armouring to the pier.

Graduating artists from UHI Shetland have been recognised with national awards from leading arts organisations.