Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

During a session of the House of Commons select committee for environment, food and rural affairs, senior civil servants were pressed by Alistair Carmichael on their planning for the “looming animal welfare crisis" around a shortage of sheep shearers in the UK.

Shetland Library is to celebrate World Book Day tomorrow with a programme of events to showcase the power of stories and to encourage children and families to rediscover the joy of reading.

Meanwhile one of the National Library of Scotland’s collections, on the poet Hugh MacDiarmid, is to feature in an exhibition in the Shetland Library and in the Shetland Museum and Archives in May.

Arianne Burgesss has called for urgent action with new data showing that those who hunt illegally with dogs are overwhelmingly likely to have had prior convictions for assault and threatening behaviour.

At the Shetland Islands Council education and families committee, questions were raised over whether the council can afford the investment required to keep-up all of its play areas. [LDRS]

The Restore Britain party is launching an Orkney & Shetland constituency organisation.

White fish box landings: 1 boat landed 289 boxes.