Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to the Banff registered fishing boat Reliance III, about 50 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh.

Starting at the end of the month, the Shetland Islands Council’s economic development service is holding a third series of drop-in events to raise awareness to the support available for local businesses.

Campaigners have encouraged those concerned about the oppression of Palestinians to oppose the Rosebank development, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst, which has Lerwick as the main marine support hub.

Colleges Scotland, the collective voice of the college sector, along with colleges, including the former Shetland College now UHI Shetland, and the colleges’ trade unions have been supporting Wear Red Day 2025.

The nominations for community councils in Shetland closed yesterday afternoon at 4 pm. There were 115 nominations for 163 places on the community councils, resulting in 48 vacancies, with only Skerries having a full number of nominations for the seats available. There were no contested seats and so there will be no elections.

There are reports of covid spreading locally, but there are no more deaths reported, after the first, three weeks ago, since June last year.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency water situation report normally runs from April to September, but it is continuing into October this year because of continuing significant levels of scarcity. In the latest report, dated yesterday, Shetland and Orkney both remained at the “be aware” level of water scarcity.