Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It looks hopeful that the Scottish government will get around to awarding the new telecommunications gigabit broadband contract for Orkney and Shetland by the end of the year but the roll-out will take years to complete.

Ithaca Energy, which holds a 20 per cent non-operated working interest in the Rosebank oil field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst, has indicated that it is interested in acquiring the 80 per cent owned by Adura, a joint venture between Norwegian energy firm Equinor and Shell.

Shares in EnQuest, operator of the Sullom Voe Terminal, fell sharply after it tightened its production guidance for the year following an outage at the Magnus field.

A second feasibility study could get underway in the coming months on a third sub-sea telecommunications cable between Shetland and the UK mainland.

The scaled down Living Lerwick, which now focuses, with a couple of exceptions, on the mainly retail businesses along Commercial Street, and in the nearby lanes, for the five years of the new Business Improvement District scheme, is seeking a new BID manager and directors.

Alistair Camichael is moving his Shetland constituency office to 155 Commercial Street in just under three weeks. 155 Commercial Steet was best known up to over 20 years ago as Televiradio and before that it was Telenews and Olison’s stationers.

The coastguard S92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked on an NHS patient transfer. This was from Papa Stour to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.