Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A study has calculated that older people in Shetland and in Orkney are missing out on an estimated £779,000 of Pension Credit every year.

The Shetland Library is hosting, what it calls, Words to Warm the Winter events this month, as part of the National Year of Reading, with the spotlight on reading, poetry and wellbeing and a focus on talented local writers.

The Shetland Islands Council’s road service is to attend to a drainage issue on the main A970 road at the Skelberry Junction at Robin’s Brae.

The Lerwick lifeboat was launched on service and coastguard rescue team members were called out to assist the police in a search of an area of the Knab and the east side of Breiwick on the whereabouts of a 14 year who was reported missing.

In its statement in response to the latest bomb-threat e-mails received by schools, the Shetland Islands Council has given an indication of its likely attitude to such obviously hoax e-mails in the future.

A report to come before a meeting of the Shetland Islands Council’s education and families committee on Monday states that statutory consultations on the closure of the Burravoe Primary School and of the Skeld Primary School are the recommended way forward. []LDRS]

White fish box landings: 10 boats landed about 2200 boxes.

Five projects in Shetland are to benefit from almost £524,000 in the latest round of funding from the Scottish Land Fund.