Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scalloway Boating Club is the latest venue in Shetland to secure extended licensing hours to show Scotland’s World Cup group matches.

Historic Environment Scotland has published a report which reveals key findings on a project about how heritage matters to people across Scotland, including from a special workshop held in Lerwick.

A thanksgiving service has taken place at Dunblane Cathedral for Lord Wallace who died in January at the age of 71. As Jim Wallace he was member of the UK parliament for Orkney and Shetland from 1983 to 2001.

Once again Orkney won the Junior Intercounty, held in Orkney this year, by taking 165 points to Shetland’s 134.5 points and winning the Stuart Cup. This was the first time that Orkney had won four successive Stuart Cups since the previous four-in-a-row sequence from 1991 to 1994.

This year’s phase of the Lerwick Port Authority’s Lerwick harbour dredging project is underway and will continue until October.

The small local business of 60n Sailing has taken delivery of a brand-new yacht the Northern Spirit, which is in the final process of being coded to category one which will allow sailing as far as Norway or Faroe.

Meanwhile the 34 metre British registered two-masted brigantine square rigger and adventure tall ship Lady of Avenel is on another 7 day voyage round Shetland after last week’s sketch and sail voyage.