Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

This (Thursday) morning, in a written ministerial statement from Keir Mather, the minister for maritime, it was confirmed that the changes by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the remuneration of coastguard volunteers, due to come into force in September, are to be paused for further assessment, and feedback, to ensure a fair settlement for the volunteers.

In addition, a permanent legislative solution is also being studied, but this will take longer since parliamentary time will have to be allocated.

This followed the promise by Sir Keir Starmer in his final Prime Minister’s Question Time in the House of Commons, that ministers would continue to work with all parties, the coastguard rescue service and volunteers, to respond to their concerns and to get this right.

At a meeting of the UK parliament’s Scottish Affair Committee on Tuesday, the secretary of state for Scotland, Douglas Alexander, responded on the role of the UK government in tunnels in Shetland.

A proposal to reduce the speed limit through Cunningsburgh from 50 miles per hour to 40 miles per hour has been welcomed by Shetland South member of the Shetland Islands Council Alex Armitage. [LDRS]

NHS Shetland has announced additional opportunities for the two-dose MenB vaccination at the Grantfield Vaccination Centre.

There has been a couple of maritime incidents, A tow-in and a DSC emergency alert.