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The Shetland Charitable Trust is to maintain its previously planned £9 million spend, in the next financial year, on the trusts and charities it supports. This is despite the ups and downs of its reserves on the world stock markets since last year. Last week the invested funds stood at £390 million, up from £377.9 million at the end of September.

The marine spatial planning team at UHI Shetland has published the first policy briefing on current issues, and research, within Scotland’s marine environment. The first policy briefing highlights the need for improved transition from fossil fuels to marine renewable energy and examens how fisheries can be included within planning and licensing.

The marine spatial planning team at UHI Shetland has published the first policy briefing on current issues, and research, within Scotland’s marine environment. The first policy briefing highlights the need for improved transition from fossil fuels to marine renewable energy and examens how fisheries can be included within planning and licensing.

Leith based Nova Innovation, operator ot the 600 kilowatt tidal stream array in Bluemull Sound, and investigating a site in Yell Sound, has secured European Union funding for a 4 Megawatt tidal stream array off Orkney.

White fish box landings: 7 boats have landed about 1100 boxes.

According to new figures from National Records of Scotland, Shetland was one of only three of the 32 local authorities in Scotland where there were no homeless deaths last year, the other two being Orkney and Moray, with the Western Isle having one homeless death last year. Since 2017, Shetland had had four homeless deaths, three of those in 2018 and the other one in 2021.

EnQuest, the operator of the Sullom Voe Terminal, has said that production the Magnus field, in the far north of the East Shetland Basin, 70 nautical miles north-east of Unst, has been exceeding that of the Kraken field, 70 nautical miles east of Boddam.