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  • Unmanned surface vessels belonging to XOCEAN are still working on the Sullom Voe and Yell Sound survey, including the approaches.

  • Meanwhile the 12 metre Clinton Marine survey vessel Lode is now based in Scalloway harbour undertaking surveys along the whole of the west coast of the South Mainland.

  • After a week, the coastguard station in Stornoway has completed standing-in for Shetland Coastguard and Aberdeen Coastguard.

  • The Irish marketing agency Baldwin has claimed that the three islands local authority areas of Scotland, that is Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles, are the only local authority areas of Scotland where there are no pubs serving Guinness on draught.

  • There has been a helicopter platform medical evacuation, a helicopter NHS patient transfer and a ferry NHS patient transfer.

  • NHS Shetland and NHS Orkney have done better than most NHS health boards in figures obtained by Scottish Labour under a freedom of information request.

  • Depute the presence of Mareel making Shetland a candidate for the public funding for the arts, a Scottish Liberal Democrat freedom of information request sent to Creative Scotland shows that there are disparities in arts spending across Scotland, with the big cities receiving more funding per head of population than other areas.

  • It has emerged that one of three humpback whales seen in Dury Voe last week has been matched to previous sightings.

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