Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Met Office has issued a weather warning for Shetland of snow from 6 pm tomorrow (Tuesday) until noon on Wednesday. However some other forecasts have categorised this as more likely to be sleet, rather than snow, with the south-easterly strong breeze and the temperature in the range of 2 to 3 degrees.

The Shetland Islands Council has announced that the first properties in Lerwick have now been transferred to Shetland Mid-Market Homes.

Qualifications Scotland has taken over from the Scottish Qualifications Authority, which was created in 1997. Last year 615 pupils in Shetland received SQA exam results.

Shetland Arts is hosting the return of Tae Sup Wi’ a Fifer the week after next.

It is possible that some of the remaining households in Shetland with RTS electricity meters will have lost their signal in recent days. This was after the longwave transmitter at Burghead, in Moray, was reduced in power last week.

In the first month of this year, almost 22 thousand boxes were landed at the white fish markets of Lerwick and Scalloway, compared to almost 30 thousand boxes last year.

After the recent weather-related cancellations of the NorthLink vessels, the passenger ferry Hjaltland will now be out of service from today until a week on Sunday, while it is in drydock.