Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It looks as if the Shetland Gas Plant will change hands early next year. This emerged as Serica Energy completed the acquisition, for £14.5 million, of Prax Upstream Limited.

Beatrice Wishart has questioned the cabinet secretary for transport on the withdrawal of shared cabins on the NorthLink service and the subsequent impact on concessionary voucher entitlement.

Ocean Kinetics has announced that it has achieved Fit 4 Offshore Renewables granted status.

Orkney member of the Scottish parliament, Liam McArthur, has highlighted the impact of changes to Ecological Focus Area criteria on crofters and farmers in island areas, like Orkney and Shetland.

White fish box landings: 5 boats landed about 400 boxes. The landings so far this week are about 6000 boxes.

Last month we reported that the production crew was being put together for another series of the TV crime drama Shetland, although at that time there was no confirmation there was to be another series. Now there has been a formal confirmation that the BBC is commissioning an eleventh series from the producer Silverprint Pictures.

Historic Environment Scotland is warning that some of Scotland’s most historically significant heritage properties are likely to be affected by climate change, with this happening already at some sites. In Shetland the most likely to be affected by rising sea levels is Jarlshof.