Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The New Shetlander magazine is being relaunched next week following a gap of just over three years.

Scottish Sea Farms has donated £10,000 to fund new books for the Whiteness Primary School.

Schools in Shetland being donated books by incoming businesses is not new, with BP doing so in the late 1970s as the Sullom Voe terminal was being built.

The Aberdeen-based offshore-infrastructure support-vessel operator, North Star, has seen an increase in turnover by 11 per cent. Over the years numerous North Star vessels have visited Lerwick harbour but less so in recent years.

Local singer and performer Pearl Hunter, who has been diagnosed with cancer three times, is raising awareness to the latest, the blood cancer lymphoma.

On Saturday Palestinian Solidarity Shetland is holding a public talk and discussion featuring Donny Gluckstein, the Jewish academic, historian and writer from Edinburgh.

The Shetland Arts and Crafts Association has put its January Up-Helly-Aa Craft Fair under review, pending the consultation of members on a formal AI policy.