Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The energy suppliers E.ON and Ovo are thought to have set this coming week to announce their merger but the timetable is said to be provisional and could still slip.

Ovo is still the dominant electricity supplier in Shetland since it took over SSE in January 2020. This in turn goes back to the days of Scottish Hydro Electric and the North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board.

Public Health Scotland has said it was working alongside public health agencies in Wales and in Northern Ireland to support the UK Health Security Agency amid fears of the spread of hantavirus, by responding to the incident and managing any risks.

This has implications for cruise ship ports in Scotland, like Lerwick, which have visits from expedition cruise ships like the Hindium, on which there is a hantaviris outbreak.

The full results in the Shetland constituency of the Scottish parliament: Hannah Mary Goodlad (SNP) 5453 votes 47.3%; Emma Macdonald (Scottish Liberal Democrat) 3,936 votes, 34.1%; Alex Armitage (Scottish Greens) 949 votes, 8.2%; Vic Currie (Reform UK) 725 votes 6.2%; John Erskine (Scottish Labour) 169 votes, 1.4%; Douglas Barnett (Scottish Conservative and Unionist) 137 votes, 1.1%; Brian Nugent (Alliance to Liberate Scotland) 65 votes 0.5% and Peter Tait (Independent) 50 votes, 0.4%.

In the Highlands & Islands region, several familiar names to Shetland were returned to the Scottish parliament, mainly Ariane Burgess (Scottish Green), Maree Todd (Scottish National Party) and Vic Currie (Reform UK) who stood for the Shetland constituency. But Orkney based Jamie Halcrow Johnston, who visited Shetland during the campaign, failed to be re-elected.