Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Hjaltland Housing Association has promised that the increasing costs of housebuilding in Shetland will not change the Staney Hill project.

The Scottish Government is to start promoting the £2 bus fare. This is to be available on participating routes in Shetland, Orkney, the Western Isles, Moray, the Highlands and parts of Argyle and Bute.

It has emerged from planning documents that the capacity of the latest aerogenerators for wind farms is up to one-and-a-half times more powerful than each of the 103 aerogenerators installed in the Viking Wind Farm.

Stephen Gethins, the Scottish minister for Europe, external affairs and energy, has been completing his two-day visit to Shetland.

There are indications that the first rocket launch from the SaxaVord Spaceport will now not be early in the summer launch window. This was after an issue was encountered with an RFA ONE rocket.

So far, more than 7,000 consultations were held at Scotland’s first six GP walk-in services, including the one in Lerwick, although that has had staffing problems resulting in several days of closures.

Although the Saturday afternoon vigils outside the Lerwick town hall have long been discontinued, events are still being held in Shetland to keep up public awareness of conditions in Gaza and the West Bank.