Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The UK government is to allocate £20 million to Scotland as part of a £500 million fund for national space programmes and to accelerate the development of the likes of spaceport infrastructure.

Alistair Carmichael has written to the chancellor of the exchequer, the UK government business secretary and the chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority to demand clarity on government action to tackle the rapidly increasing cost of heating oil and red diesel, due to the Iran war.

In a Scottish parliament debate on ferries, Beatrice Wishart highlighted longstanding issues, during her six and a half years as a member of the Scottish parliament, that both the Scottish government and Transport Scotland had not seriously engaged with.

Shetland is fourth equal of the thirty-two local authorities in Scotland for the lowest percentage of obesity.

UHI Shetland’s marine science and technology department was mentioned several times at the Lantra Scotland Awards for land-based and aquaculture skills.

Scam calls pretending to be from NHS Shetland are being received in Shetland and have been reported to the Shetland Islands Council’s trading standards.

Following the current instability in the Middle East, and the price of domestic heating oil already increasing, Orkney based Highlands and Islands member of the Scottish parliament, Jamie Halcro Johnston, has pointed out that many residents in Shetland and in Orkney are dependent on oil-based heating.