Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Alistair Carmichael has renewed calls for ministers to engage with farmers, crofters and other food producers over future trading relations with the European Union.

The Scottish Greens member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands and Islands, Ariane Burgess, has noted that, in Shetland, families are being caught short by hidden childcare costs simply because of when their children are born.

Shetland had the eighth highest rate of the 32 local authorities in Scotland, and higher than the Scottish average, in delayed hospital discharges.

There are more details on what was involved in preparation by US European Command for the seizure of the 333 metre very large crude cartier Bella 1, also called Marinera, between Faroe and Iceland.

The Shetland Islands Council has said that staff will do extra runs this weekend to try to collect recently-missed refuse collections, including last week’s delayed new year collections.

Home owners and other Shetland residents are being invited by the Shetland Islands Council to share their views from later this month on council tax.

The Scottish government has opened a consultation on raising the threshold for when planning decisions on onshore electricity generation projects are taken out of local control. [LDRS].

After arriving in its home port of Oban on Christmas day, the Northern Lighthouse Board’s new 70 metre vessel, Pole Star, is undergoing sea trials while preparing for it first deployment,