Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

NHS Shetland has announced local plans after the Scottish government confirmed that it is offering a new programme of two-dose MenB vaccination for young people this summer.

A meeting of Shetland’s licensing board has been told of a year-end surplus of almost £25,000 to March this year, after recording an almost £15,000 deficit to March last year. [LDRS]

276 customers in Whalsay lost power this morning. This was due to a fault in the overhead network.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to the floating, production, storage and offloading vessel Glen Lyon, 70 nautical miles due west of Papa Stour. This was to take a crewman in need of medical attention to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.

Earlier the helicoter was tasked to a foreign fishing boat 90 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh.This was to take a casualty to Inverness.

Then the coastguard broadcast a Mayday relay for a Norwegian fishing boat with an engine fire 63 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh. The crew extinguished the fire, restarted the engine, raised the net and headed home to Norway.

The SaxaVord Spaceport is applying for a licence to leave, unrecovered, large rocket parts that fall into the sea north off Unst.

The RadioTeleSwitch saga is coming to end with the longwave transmitters at Burghhead in Moray, Westerglen near Falkirk and Droitwich in Worcestershire shutting down tomorrow.The codes for the Radio Teleswitch Service for electricity meters ended for the Burghead transmitter area, that is Shetland, Orkney, and the north of Scotland, on the 15th of June.