Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

There was a meeting in Scalloway yesterday to discuss the closure of the Scalloway pool this past March.

Councillor Stephen Leask is to stand for the Shetland North ward, instead of the Lerwick North and Bressay ward, at the next local government elections for the Shetland Islands Council next May.

There are continuing reports of small outbreaks of covid in Shetland, some work-related and some following community events and social events like weddings.

After the Russian Vishna class intelligence-gathering vessel Viktor Leonov kept a close eye on the NATO Exercise Strike Warrior, off the north-west of Scotland in September and October, it has been continuing intelligence-gathering operations, including west of Shetland.

Meanwhile the shadow fleet tankers are still sailing to the east and around the north of Shetland after arriving from the Baltic and heading down the Atlantic Ocean.

NHS Shetland is marking six months since the launch of its Walk-In Clinic, which has supported local patients and visitors with alternative ways of accessing urgent primary care.

The Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service has issued an alert to hospitals across Scotland that blood stocks are at “unprecedented low levels” due to a national shortage of blood donors.