Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

This morning the 9 metre Tarbert registered fishing boat Firecrest, with one person on board, was deliberately grounded on Bain’s Beach in Lerwick harbour after taking in water while coming into port.

At one time it might have seemed unlikely, but there now appears to be a chance of cooperation between fish producers in Scotland and those in the north-east of the United States.

An unidentified council-owned building in Lerwick is to be adapted into a Bairns Hoose’ to provide a safe environment for the multi-agency support of children and young people who have suffered harm. [LDRS]

In Unst, paper and card will be picked up tomorrow and not on Saturday. In Yell, paper and card normally scheduled for today will be picked up on Saturday.

White fish box landings: Only small boats are due to land at the markets of Lerwick and Scalloway today. The landings so far this week are 3885 boxes.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 250 metre Crystal Serenity at anchor after arriving from Bergen and departing for Kirkwall.

For around 70 years from early last century, wooden-built coastguard lookout stations overlooking the sea throughout Shetland kept an eye on marine traffic.

This past weekend 15 volunteers from the North Yell area spent a day cleaning and painting the former look-out hut the top of the cliffs at Gloup Ness, known as the Blee Hut.