Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The communications regulator Ofcom is to make more spectrum available for Earth Station in Motion satellite terminals, such as installed on NorthLink vessels, but not Loganair aircraft, to enable better connectivity for crew and passengers on ships and also planes.

As another sanctioned shadow-fleet tanker is passing to the west of Shetland, but well-within Faroese waters, Britain has imposed fresh sanctions on Russia, including on another 20 vessels accused of shipping Russian oil and gas to third countries.

The tanker currently passing to the west of Shetland is the 22 year old, 247 metre, Sakhalin heading for Port Said, and sanctioned by the United Kingdom on the 12th of September last year .

Although members of the Shetland Islands Council’s education and families committee have backed keeping the hockey pitch at Brae rather than constructing a new 3G pitch in Lerwick, the final decision will be taken at the meeting of the full council in two weeks. [LDRS]

In Scotland, the reduction of allowances under the Motability scheme will not take effect on the 1st of July, as elsewhere in the United Kingdom. This is to allow for discussions to continue between the Scottish government and Motability.

Spring Clean Scotland 2026, organised by the environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful, has confirmed that in Shetland, as part of Da Voar Redd Up, 3,200 people got involved.