Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Viking Community Fund has announced that it is working with the Shetland Islands Council to support Shetland’s rural shops over the next three years.

A partnership of Shetland member of the Scottish parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad, Shetland Women’s Aid and the Compass Centre is to host two events later this month, one public, on how to counter violence against women and girls.

It has been confirmed that three of the eight turbines of the proposed Mossy Hill wind farm, between Lerwick and Scalloway, will have low-intensity visible red lights, being near Tingwall airport, and a Ministry of Defence requirement of invisible infra-red lights.

The Lerwick Town Hall will host a public exhibition next week to mark the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Ancre during the First World War.

Twenty-two young men from Shetland died in the Battle of the Ancre, either during the fighting or from injuries sustained in battle. Eight of those were former pupils of the Anderson Educational Institute.

Alistair Carmichael has welcomed the expanded mobile phone coverage from the Shared Rural Network in Orkney and in Shetland.

Members of the Lerwick Community Council have heard that Shetland is soon to be the only health board in Scotland without a breathing space bench.