Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Electoral Commission’s report on this year’s Scottish Parliament election found that the majority of candidates in Scotland faced abuse, or intimidation, and that was true in Shetland for several of the candidates, including the elected member Hanna Mary Goodlad. Alistair Carmichael, in UK general elections, has also faced online abuse.

Although the Scottish Crofting Federation has said that it is travelling to the crofting counties to engage crofters in conversations about the future of crofting, so far no visits have been arranged for Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles.

The UK government has been asked to ban the Israeli Delek group, which owns Ithaca Energy with assets west of Shetland, from operating on the UK continental shelf because of its links with illegal settlements on the West Bank.

The coastguard S92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked twice to go to installations off Shetland to bring the casualties back to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.

Sometime, in the next 30 or so years, the Viking Windfarm will be reaching the end of its useful life, and decisions will have to be taken on how the windfarm will be decommissioned and how it will be replaced.

Fair Isle’s new ferry boat Good Shepherd V is due to be completed by the shipyard in November and, following further modification work, it is scheduled to enter service next spring.

The Northern Lighthouse Board’s new Spanish-built 70 metre vessel, Pole Star, sailed on Monday after being berthed at Holmsgarth Four since Friday.