Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Care Day flag has been flying above Lerwick Town Hall as the Shetland Islands Council marked Care Day the world’s largest annual celebration of people with care experience.

This is the Northmavine Up Helly Aa day and night with guizar jarl Lindsay Angus as a Knut Gråsk-jegg leading his 44 strong squad.

The Shetland Islands Council’s development committee has discussed the offer by SSEN Transmission to deliver ‘legacy’ houses in Shetland.

Following the meeting of the Shetland Charitable Trust, which included an in-depth discussion in private on the Shetland Recreational Trust and the Scalloway swimming pool, the trustees issued a statement that there was no clear way forward at this stage.

The meeting of the Shetland Charitable Trust also heard that the value of the trust’s investments had dropped by £23 million since the start of the year.

The police, the ambulance service, coastguard rescue teams from Lerwick, Hillswick and Sumburgh, two full-time coastguards, and the Lerwick lifeboat were tasked yesterday when a man slipped down the banks near the Waarie Geo.

SSEN Transmission has revealed that reason that roadworks for the Shetland North reinforcement project were paused a week past Sunday was for an investigation after a worker was injured.