Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

In the Scottish parliament, during justice and home affairs portfolio questions, Beatrice Wishart, raised the findings of the Shetland Women’s Aid survey called Voices of Women in Shetland.

The Scottish Green member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands and Islands, Ariane Burgess, has responded to the Scottish government Marine Directorate's research into fish deaths at Scottish salmon farms.

The Crown Estate Scotland coastal communities fund, administered by the Shetland Islands Council, is to re-open, with a reduced maximum grant. [LDRS]

The meeting of the full Shetland Islands Council on Wednesday the 25th of March is to discuss a report on the appointment of a new convener as a successor to Councillor Andrea Manson, who resigned her position as convener. Before Andrea Manson resigned, a majority of councillors had signed a notice of motion calling on her to consider her position as convener. This was after she was banned last month from holding company directorship for three and a half years.

The Aith lifeboat station is receiving a donation of thermal imaging binoculars from the Skipasund Foundation which was founded by Haraldur Agustsson, whose Globus Group started in Shetland but is now international and based in Manchester.

Historic Environment Scotland has confirmed that a specialist team was abseiling from the top of the Mousa Broch.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh tasked to the floating, production, storage and offloading vessel Glen Lyon, 70 nautical miles due west of Papa Stour.