Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The islands minister Mairi Gougeon has decided that the proposed Islands Bond will not go ahead following negative responses from islands areas in the consultation.

The Scottish government is investing a further 20 million pounds in a further expansion of the Northern contract, which includes Shetland, for Reaching 100 per cent, or R100.

The North Mainland Leisure Centre in Brae is celebrating the twentieth anniversary of its upgrade from a swimming pool only to a full leisure centre.

SSE Renewables, the developer of the Viking Wind Farm, has launched a new science, technology, engineering and mathematics interactive educational online resource for children aged 3 to 8 years at nursery and primary schools in Shetland.

Deepwater coral has been found on the legs of the jacket of Ninian Northern platform, with the 42-year-old jacket currently being broken up and decommissioned at the Dales Voe Base.

The ferry Daggri has been operating a single vessel service on Yell Sound, for the fourth day in a row, while Dagalien is still undergoing repairs to its control system.

Skyrora, the Edinburgh-based rocket development company, which last October agreed a ten-year contract with the SaxaVord Spaceport for up to 16 launches a year by 2030, has carried out a successful static 70kN liquid engine test, stating that it was UK’s first ground rocket test in 50 years and another step towards its first orbital launch.