Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Last Thursday, just as the Royal Fleet auxiliary support and replenishment vessel RFA Tidespring had left Bergen with stores, to rejoin the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales and the Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan in the Norwegian Sea well north of Shetland, a Russian Bear-F maritime patrol aircraft repeatedly approached the Prince of Wales and dropped a large number of sonar buoys.

The SaxaVord Spaceport has applied for planning permission to erect security fencing around the spaceport with concern that people will come too near to witness rocket launches.

The Shetland Islands Council has warned of changes to refuse collection in Bressay this week.

New freedom of information figures show that the Gilbert Bain Hospital had the ninth highest ambulance turnaround time in Scotland between the end of December and the end of May

In the first six months of this year, over 147 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway.

The nursery class at the Sandwick Junior High School has been given good and very good in an inspection by inspectors in June.

The purchase for £1.6 billion of the ITV programme and streaming networks by Sky, and effectively Sky’s owner Comcast, is unlikely to have any impact on the production of the crime drama Shetland by Silverprint Pictures, which is a division of ITV Studios. This is because ITV Studios is not a part of the package being purchased by Sky, and Shetland is also commissioned from Silverprint Pictures by the BBC.