Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Crown Estate Scotland has said that it is working closely with the Scottish government, and agencies which regulate the aquaculture industry, to oversee a pilot project off the east of Shetland which will see aquaculture development being extended from the current three-mile limit to a new 12-mile zone.

85 year old Pushp Vaid, who captained the Chinook helicopter carrying offshore workers from the Brent field, when it crashed into the North Sea in calm weather, on the approach to Sumburgh Airport on the 6th of November 1986, has used artificial intelligence to recreate what happened.

After being shut for four months to upgrade the heating system, the Lerwick Town Hall has reopened.

As island communities face declining oil and gas employment, the Scottish Greens are calling for Orkney and Shetland to be included in Scotland’s Just Transition Fund.

A week late, the scaffolding is finally being removed from what was originally the staff accommodation block of the Gilbert Bain Hospital, which was built between 1959 and 1961.

20,000 years ago, during the last ice-age, Shetland had its own independent ice sheet covering over 20,000 square miles and that was expected to returm in 10,000 years.

A group of pupils and staff at the Anderson High school have launched an £8000 project to commission new art-work to compliment the murals completed in 1963 by pupils Ian Coutts and Ian Guthrie, supervised by art teacher Charlie Forret, for the Bellview extension to the original Anderson High School.