Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Alistair Carmichael has criticised the recent decision by Crown Estate Scotland to raise marina and other mooring fees from £2 to £55 per year.

Crown Estate Scotland had met with marina associations to explain the increase as a need to obtain a “market value” for the moorings.

A new analysis published by Offshore Energies UK of environmental monitoring of the offshore oil and gas industry, including north-east, east and west of Shetland, shows that there has been a 34 per cent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions between 2018 and 2024, exceeding the 25 per cent emissions reduction target.

In the East Shetland Basin, part of the reduction in emissions has been due to the end of production, decommissioning and removal of an increasing number of oil and gas platforms.

The Shetland Women’s football team won the Highlands and Islands League Cup, with this season their first ever appearance in the competition.

The Fair Isle ferry Good Shepherd made a special trip to Lerwick yesterday, berthing at the Morrison Dock. This was to land equipment that had been used in Fair Isle over the summer.

What was claimed to be an email from a journalist from Shetland contacting the daughter of a man who is well known in Norway for faking his own death may well have been sent by the father of the woman himself.

There has been another cancellation of a cruise ship for Lerwick harbour, bringing the total back down to 132.