Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The SaxaVord Spaceport is applying for a licence to leave, unrecovered, large rocket parts that fall into the sea north off Unst.

The RadioTeleSwitch saga is coming to end with the longwave transmitters at Burghhead in Moray, Westerglen near Falkirk and Droitwich in Worcestershire shutting down tomorrow.The codes for the Radio Teleswitch Service for electricity meters ended for the Burghead transmitter area, that is Shetland, Orkney, and the north of Scotland, on the 15th of June.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to a foreign fishing boat 90 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh.This was to take a casualty to Inverness.

Then the coastguard broadcast a Mayday relay for a Norwegian fishing boat with an engine fire 63 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh. The crew extinguished the fire, restarted the engine, raised the net and headed home to Norway.

White fish box landings: 7 boats landed about 1700 boxes.

It is probably unlikely anytime soon for the Shetland ferry fleet, but Carsten Haagensen, president of data services at Ocean Infinity, a marine robotics and technology firm, has raised the question on the need for people in vessel operations.

Living Lerwick is launching its very first Tommy the Cat Trail. Like Larry, the Downing Street cat, Tommy the Cat is a celebrity, visiting virtually every shop or business on the street and building up quite a following with one visitor travelling all the way from Australia to meet him!