Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

With the Shetland Islands Council elections taking place in May next year, residents are being urged to check their electoral registration details or risk losing their chance to vote on decisions which may affect them.

Historic Environment Scotland has announced a new pilot fund to help listed places of worship carry out vital repairs and conservation work.

Historic Environment Scotland has designated 30 architecturally, and historically, protected ecclesiastical structures in Shetland, including the category B Lunna Kirk, Saint Columba's Church of Scotland, the Scottish Episcopal Church, the Sandwick Church and the Fetlar Kirk, along with about 7 category C churches.

After it left Prinses Alexiahaven, in the outer reaches of Rotterdam harbour, Allseas double-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit, is heading for another project, before arriving, possibly at the weekend, at North Cormorant, 60 nautical miles north-east of Unst.

This is to remove the topsides of the platform and to take them to the Dales Voe Base, where they will be landed with the assistance of the usual barge, the Iron Lady.

The new bus timetables announced in July by ZetTrans, the transport strategy partnership for Shetland, are now in effect across Shetland.

The drilling and blasting, along with some dredging, have moved back to the Lerwick north harbour while dredging by the Odin continues in Dales Voe.