Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The approximately 230 children in Shetland that will be starting in primary one, at the 25 primary schools in Shetland in the next academic year, that is August next year, will be the first, along with other primary schools in Scotland, to receive a Welcome to School backpack to help them start school.

The Unite union has confirmed it has secured a pay increase of over £3000 for medics employed by United Healthcare Global Medical who work on Adura offshore assets, Adura being a joint venture between Shell and Equinor.

After considering it for the last couple of years, or so, BBC Shetland editor John Johnston is to retire in October.

The experience gained in the three previous visits, in the last six years, of Allseas 382 metre twin-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit and the two previous visits of Allseas 177 metre barge Iron Lady, has meant that the transfer to the Dales Voe Base of Taka’s North Cormorant platform is being achieved smoothly.

The decommissioning at the Dales Voe Base will now be undertaken over the next 18 months or so by Brown & Mason, one of Europe’s largest demolition and dismantling companies.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland remains at the normal level for water scarcity, along with Orkney, the Western Isles and the west of Scotland.

Coastguard helicopters based at Sumburgh were called out several times over the weekend.