Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Work is to get underway next Wednesday, and to take two weeks to complete, on widening the road junction at Mayfield at Sand.

Shetland Analytical Services, formerly Shetland Seafood Quality Control, has secured a distribution agreement with Sensoreal, the Canadian biotechnical company, to expand access to rapid biotoxin testing for the UK shellfish industry.

The national charity Independent Age has announced a new round of its Boosting Advice Fund, with Shetland one of the areas selected.

TV chef Mitch Tonks, founder and chief executive of the Rockfish seafood restaurant chain, has said that, as a chef with a 25-year career in seafood, Brexit had done nothing good for UK fishing.

Alistair Carmichael told the UK parliament this week of the risks to Shetland and in Orkney of government plans to extend, from five to ten years, the period before immigrants can secure indefinite leave to remain in the UK.

Investment company Carlyle is completing its acquisition of the fleet of floating production storage and offloading vessels from infrastructure company Altera, including the Petrojarl Rosebank, formerly Petrojarl Knarr.

The NorthLink passenger ferry Hjaltland is on its annual docking schedule, this year that being at the Hebburn drydock, the largest on the Tyne.