Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Lerwick Town Hall will host a public exhibition next week to mark the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Ancre during the First World War.

Twenty-two young men from Shetland died in the Battle of the Ancre, either during the fighting or from injuries sustained in battle. Eight of those were former pupils of the Anderson Educational Institute.

Alistair Carmichael has welcomed the expanded mobile phone coverage from the Shared Rural Network in Orkney and in Shetland.

Members of the Lerwick Community Council have heard that Shetland is soon to be the only health board in Scotland without a breathing space bench.

The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh, Resue 800, was tasked to help trace a 72-year-old Stromness man last seen in Stenness on Sunday.

White fish box landings: 6 boats landed about 800 boxes. Pelagic fish landings: The Antarctic is landing mackerel at Lerwick and the Banff Resolute is waiting to land.

The report on the inspection in September of the Fair Isle Primary School and the pre-school nursery class has been published by His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Education in Scotland.

Meanwhile, as part of Scottish Interfaith Week 2026, Shetland Inter Faith is hosting an event next week entitled Wellbeing.