Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The £255,000 contract for the demolition work on two blocks of council flats in Pitt Lane in Lerwick has gone to Shetland Plant Hire, which is based in Garthspool in Lerwick and was incorporate in September 2022.

Alistair Carmichael has welcomed news that the European Commission has given the go-ahead for a new tidal energy project at the European Marine Energy Centre in Orkney.

Shetland has one tidal project, Nova Innovation’s 600 kW tidal array in Bluemull Sound.

The UK registered but Spanish operated white fish boat Genesis is finally breaking up near the Old Man of Hoy where it ran aground on rocks a week past Thursday.

New research shows that 26.7 million people in the United Kingdom lost their broadband in the past year, with power cuts reported to be the main cause of broadband outages. In Shetland, over the years, most people have been vulnerable from power outages, but this should be mitigated by the battery park under construction.

Scottish Ambulance Service vaccinators have been deployed across Scotland’s islands this month. This is to support local health boards, including NHS Shetland, with their winter flu and covid vaccination campaigns.

Increasingly often, Blackbirds have been recorded catching live fish from lochs, lakes, burns and streams to feed their young but not so far in Shetland.