Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to go to the Faroese Smyril Line ferry Norröna, which was passing about 60 nautical miles east of Lerwick, while on the way from Tórshavn in Faroe to Hirtshals in Denmark. A passenger on board the Norröna was in need of medical attention.

There are now only three more canvassing days until the Scottish parliament election on Thursday. With there being no Shetland-specific opinion poll, it has been left to the likes of indicative polls to consider what the outcome will be. It has been generally acknowledged that the two leading parties will be the Scottish Liberal Democrats and the SNP.

Members of the House of Commons are to consider the evidence on the feasibility of road tunnels in Shetland. The report on this is expected to say that the introduction of subsea tunnels would be politically ‘straightforward’ but there are geological concerns which are less straightforward.

Wind farm developer Statkraft has received planning approval for the revised plan for its Mossy Hill windfarm, between Lerwick and Scalloway, with the revisions of a plan approved in 2019 submitted in August 2024.

Total Energies, creator and former owner of the Shetland Gas Plant, is the latest energy company, after the likes of BP, former owner of the Sullom Voe Terminal, to announce increased earnings from the high price of oil due to the war in Iran.

John Angus has taken over from Malcolm Craigie as the Lerwick Lifeboat’s operations manager, that being responsible for the lifeboat and its crew being always ready for service.

Connect, the organisation which represents parent councils in schools in Scotland, is proposing that that school-work for highers exams should become two-year courses in high schools such as the Anderson High School and the Brae High School.