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After originally saying that changes by the Maritime and Coastguard Agency in the remuneration of coastguard volunteers, due to come into force in September, are to be paused for further assessment, Keir Mather, the minister for maritime, has said that he has now listened to the views of coastguard rescue officers and a move to an expenses-only model would not go ahead.

The Junior Up Helly Aa festival has announced the EP release of Sessions wie da Junior Up Helly Aa Band. Originally the six tracks, of four commissioned Junior Jarl marches written since 2023 along with the Up Helly Aa Song and Galley Song.

About 50 offshore workers employed by Neo Next have backed an enhanced pay deal after a series of strikes were set to take place from the 22nd of July. Workers on the Alwyn North platform, 70 nautical miles east of Unst, along with those on the Elgin Franklin platform, east of Aberdeen, were to go on strike for five 24 hour periods from next week.

Ahead of a change of the UK prime minister next week, Emma Macdonald, the leader of the Shetland Islands Council, has suggested that the incoming prime minister Andy Burnham, and his new government, could make a “positive impact” by committing to supporting the council in delivering tunnels. [LDRS]

Morven-May MacCallum, Liberal-Democrat member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands and Islands, has written to the cabinet secretary for social justice and housing calling for the Scottish government to look again at its decision to allow the same changes, as in England, to the Motability Scheme.

The Shell-volution, Islands Growth Deal project funded by the UK Government and the Scottish Government to transform Scotland's mussel farming sector, has appointed mussel aquaculture researcher Doctor Brad Skelton, a research fellow at the University of Auckland, as independent scientific advisor for a one-year pilot.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to go to Mousa where a visitor had a fractured ankle. The casualty was taken to the emergency landing site in Lerwick.