Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Open Door Drama, consisting of a group of local volunteers, has been awarded the King’s Award for Voluntary Service for 2025. This is announced annually on the King’s birthday.

The first steelwork has been laid to form the keel of the new 24-metre monohull Fair Isle ferry, in a build expected to take Parkol Marine Engineering in Whitby around 12 months.

Beatrice Wishart has responded to the UK government’s announcement on Wednesday that it will look again at its previous rejection of compensation for women affected by changes to the state pension age.

A border collie called Whisp that went over the banks at Heylor, was brought up in a rope rescue by members of coastguard rescue teams.

White fish box landings: 4 boats landed about 400 boxes. 4 boats landed about 400 boxes. The landings so far this week are about 7700 boxes.

NHS Shetland has said that, due to a high volume of respiratory illness in Shetland, believed to include covid and flu, it is temporarily limiting hospital visits to the Gilbert Bain Hospital to essential visits only.

A national review of the salaries of chief executives in Scotland, by the Scottish local authority organisation COSLA, has recommended that the salary of the chief executive role within the Shetland Islands Council should rise by more than £32,000 over the next two years. [LDRS]