Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The UK government has been asked to ban the Israeli Delek group, which owns Ithaca Energy with assets west of Shetland, from operating on the UK continental shelf because of its links with illegal settlements on the West Bank.

The coastguard S92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked twice yesterday to go to installations off Shetland to bring the casualties back to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.

Fair Isle’s new ferry boat Good Shepherd V is due to be completed by the shipyard in November and, following further modification work, it is scheduled to enter service next spring.

Sometime, in the next 30 or so years, the Viking Windfarm will be reaching the end of its useful life, and decisions will have to be taken on how the windfarm will be decommissioned and how it will be replaced.

The Northern Lighthouse Board’s new Spanish-built 70 metre vessel, Pole Star, sails today after being berthed at Holmsgarth Four since Friday.

White fish box landings: 7 boats landed about 1200 boxes.

The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 239 metre Viking Mira on arrival from Bergen and departure for Aberdeen.

Shetland Americana, folk and roots singer-songwriter Freda Leask has announced the release of her new single, called Troubled Waters.