Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish government has said that, up to last Friday, funding for the basic payment scheme and greening had been paid to 81per cent of eligible crofting and farming businesses, with the payment window closing in July next year.

With World Clean Up Day on Sunday, Keep Scotland Beautiful is inviting people across the country who litter-1ick, including those who take part in Shetland’s Da Voar Redd Up, to join the growing Clean Up Scotland Network.

The 17 metre Severn Class relief lifeboat Roger and Joy Freeman is in Lerwick harbour, having arrived from Aith where it has been standing in for the Aith Lifeboat while it was south undergoing maintenance.

The Lerwick lifeboat and coastguard rescue teams from Lerwick, Walls and Sumburgh, were tasked to search for a young teen, with the lifeboat searching from off Gulberwick to Mousa Sound.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland remains in the early warning level for water scarcity.

Organisations across the north of Scotland, including in Shetland and in Orkney, are being urged to secure a share of SSEN Transmission's biggest-ever community benefit fund.

The Shetland Islands Council’s roads service has clarified where and when cat’s eyes are being installed on sections of the main A970 road that was surface dressed recently in the south mainland.