Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party has chosen Douglas Barnett as its candidate for Shetland in the Scottish parliament elections on Thursday the 7th of May. Douglas Barnett is a student at Aberdeen University and, being aged 21, he is the youngest of the seven candidates.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked for a helicopter NHS patient transfer to Aberdeen.

On returning from Aberdeen to Sumburgh the helicopter was diverted directly to assist the police in a search, along with the Lerwick lIfeboat and the Mid Yell coastgurd rescue team, for a missing person in the Mid Yell area.

The main worship area of Lerwick Methodist Church, which dates from 1871, is to reopen for services and activities on Easter weekend after being closed since January for repairs, some a consequence of the storm of 1993, which lifted the roof and allowed water to come in.

White fish box landings: 8 boats landed over 1000 boxes.

Lightning in wet hail resulted in power cuts, including in the south of Bressay and south-west Yell.

After the lifting of turf, work is underway to plant seeds at the south side of Breiwick Road and at Rudda Court in Sound.