Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Caledonian Maritime Assets, the owner and operator of the NorthLink vessels and also the Calmac vessels, has announced that, following a 10-day standstill period ending on the 24th of March, it intends to award the contract for two new freight flex vessels to Guangzhou Shipyard International in China, known as GSI, from a short-list of four.

Since last September, over £225,000 has been awarded from the Viking Community Fund, through the Community Grant Scheme.

Ferries are to be included in a survey by RNID, the national charity which supports those who are deaf or have hearing loss.

After the Shetland Islands Council and the board of ZetTrans approved the business cases, the new public bus services contracts from August have now been announced.

Alistair Carmichael has welcomed confirmation that the UK government will provide £53 million in funding to support households struggling with the rapid rise in the cost of heating oil.

Organisations and community groups in Shetland are being encouraged to act quickly, because of a submission deadline of a week on Friday, if they would like local traditions to be recognised under the UK’s Living Heritage.

The arrival at the emergency landing site in Lerwick last week, of a coastguard AW189 helicopter from Prestwick may well have been the first NHS patients transfer by an AW189 from Shetland.