Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Today (Monday) is International Overdose Awareness Day, the world's largest annual campaign to end overdose, with an event in Lerwick’s south George’s Field this evening organised by Shetland Recovery Hub and Community Network.

Two venues in Shetland will be part of the 34 locations for Scottish Opera’s Autumn and Spring tours of Scotland with its production of Englebert Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel.

Last Tuesday, with the conclusion of sea trials off Yantai in China, Faroe’s Smyril Line officially took delivery of its new 189.5 metre ro-ro freight vessel, the Skipanes.

After five days for a rest stay at Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour, the 20 year old, 102 metre, French naval vessel Dupuy de Lôme, is joining a High-North Nato fleet, patrolling the north Atlantic Ocean and Norwegian Sea, and keeping an eye on Russian naval activity around Shetland and as far north as Svaldbard.

Although some blacklisted tankers of the Russian shadow fleet are back to attempting to sail through the English Channel, following a pause after the arrest of the Smyrtos in June, tankers sailing to and from the Baltic are still passing Shetland.

The coastguard S92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked for a helicopter NHS patient transfer.

After a wryneck was spotted in Skerries in April, another wryneck has been spotted in Lerwick near to the Anderson High School.