Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

There has been disruption to both air and sea traffic to and from Shetland, mostly due to weather conditions in Aberdeen and elsewhere in Scotland.

Yesterday the coastguard AW189 helicopter based at Sumburgh, Rescue 800, went to Orkney twice for NHS patient transfers.

As the drilling, blasting and dredging in Lerwick harbour comes to an end, more of the vessels involved have left.

It looks as if there has been no recent progress in getting FlyHigland up and running.

The result, earlier this month, of the Scottish Liberal Democrats freedom of information request, which found that in Shetland's schools last year there were 645 violent incidents, has since been described as nothing new.

White fish box landings: 16 boats landed about 2000 boxes. Pelagic fish landings: The Charisma is landing mackerel to be followed by the Fraserburgh Ocean Star.

Around about now, SIBC will be marking a milestone of 300,000 local news bulletins carried since we started on air in November 1987.