Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The members of the Shetland Islands Council have already rejected four proposals for the council’s approved budget for the next financial year to make savings over the coming years.

Those proposal rejected are reducing the opening hours at the Gremista dump, reducing winter road maintenance, ending burial ground grass cutting other than for safety requirements and cutting back on surface dressing of roads.

A Scottish Liberal Democrat freedom of information request to every Scottish health board, including NHS Shetland, asked for the number of complaints made about maternity care since 2020.

In a debate in the UK parliament on the potential merits of a levy on energy developers, Alistair Carmichael raised, with the energy minister Michael Shanks, the need for meaningful community benefit.

Michael Shanks replied that a generation of lobbyists should look back at the history books of the Shetland Islands Council, because it was an extraordinary story of how the council seized the opportunity of what it knew, even then, would be decades of offshore oil and gas and from which it still benefits.

The Northmavine Community Development Company and the Hillswick Shop Board have thanked those who attended the public meeting on Wednesday to discuss the future of the Hillswick Shop, which is under threat of closure.

Highlands and Islands Scottish Green member of the Scottish parliament Ariane Burgess has welcomed the Scottish government's announcement earlier this week that mid and peak season ferry fares will finally be removed from the 24th of March for eligible residents of Orkney and Shetland.