Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Three Shetland based tourism businesses won their nominated categories at Friday evening’s Highlands and Islands Thistle Awards in Inverness.

During his first official visit as UK prime minister to Berlin last week, Andy Burnham reached an agreement with German chancellor Friedrich Merz, for SaxaVord Spaceport to be a potential hub for Europe’s access to space, for civil, commercial, security and defence reasons.

Met Office results show that, despite it being colder in recent days, but warmer in the coming days, October started slightly warmer than usual in Shetland, just as the summer was warmer than usual this year.

A study has found that Shetland and Orkney have among the lowest company insolvency risk in the UK.

A poll commissioned by RSPB Scotland found that over three-quarters of people in Scotland believe offshore wind farms should only be built where they do not harm nature.

Frankie’s Fish and Chips in Brae has been named a finalist in the customer experience category at the Scottish Fish and Chips Awards.

Shetland Webcams now has a limited service with repairs being made across the network.

An S92 helicopter based at Stornoway was tasked to go to a standby vessel in the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst.