Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to go to the 237 metre cruise ship Bollette, which was 60 nautical miles east of Nesting.

This was the second Sumburgh helicopter medical evacuation from a cruise ship to the emergency landing site in Lerwick this week.

The Shetland Islands Council is keen for its services to engage in digital innovation and artificial intelligence but there is a need to modernise “legacy” ways of working first.

The danger of becoming engaged on digital innovation and AI is that it will almost certainly lock the council into dependence on the big American tech companies.

Work to develop the Roseback field 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst shows no sign of slackening. In the field yesterday, surrounding the floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank were 13 support vessels ranging from standby vessels, to platform supply vessels, diving support vessels and multipurpose offshore vessels.

Hannah Mary Goodlad, member of the Scottish parliament for Shetland, has welcomed the announcement by NHS Shetland on extending the opening hours to the weekday evenings for the walk-in clinic at Grantfield.

The number of temporary accommodation units being proposed for SaxaVord Spaceport launch staff is being reduced from about 80 to 32.