Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The flights to and from Sumburgh Airport were all pretty much on time and were relatively unaffected by the technical issue that lasted until late morning at the National Air Traffic Service’s Prestwick Centre.

The Scottish Crofting Federation has announced that it has created a training programme designed to support crofters, farmers, smallholders and other small-scale producers to set up local food businesses using their own primary produce, with courses in Shetland next March.

The NATO-led naval Exercise Strike Warrior 2026 is now underway and runs until between the 9th to the 12th of October, mostly south and west of Shetland.

It is three out of three for the Shetland Women Football team with a 2-1 away-win over Musselburgh Windsor in the Scottish Cup. Freya Leslie scored both goals for Shetland.

A group representing 200 rural community councils, including from Shetland, has united to demand an independent inquiry into the impact of huge green energy and electricity infrastructure projects across Scotland.

Monday was the last day that the NHS Shetland Walk-In Clinic will operate from its temporary location at Outpatients at the Gilbert Bain Hospital. From Tuesday the Walk-In Clinic will return to Grantfield.

A juvenile American black tern has been spotted hawking for food over the water in the Loch of Tingwall. This was the first record of an American black tern in Shetland,