Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The 129 metre Faroese container ship Selfos is at the Greenhead Base after being towed there by the 57 metre Norwegian anchor handler BB Ocean, also being towed alongside by the Knab and pushed alongside by the Kebister.

After seven months of standing in for the Lerwick lifeboat Michael and Jane Vernon, while it was undergoing a six-month major refit at the RNLI lifeboat centre in Poole, the Severn-class relief lifeboat Fraser Flier headed off to Aberdeen yesterday.

SSQC or, in full, Shetland Seafood Quality Control, which has provided third-party preventative auditing and hazard analysis on food safety, including independent quality assurance for the seafood industry, has changed its name to better reflect its current, and expanding, services.

White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 500 boxes.

The Shetland Islands Council’s licensing board has once again approved extended licenses for this Christmas and New Year, adding an extra hour to the regular licensing hours.

The licensing board has awarded the new shop in Burravoe a premises licence for off-sales alcohol and the Burravoe Post Office service will relocate to the Brough Store after Christmas.

Mrs Joey Adamson has celebrated her 100th Birthday including being presented with a birthday card from King Charles and Queen Camilla.