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The Falkland Islands football team, which had accepted a late invitation as third reserve, has withdrawn from taking part at the International Island Games in Orkney in July.

Speaking in another Scottish parliament debate on Women Against State Pension Inequality, or WASPI, Beatrice Wishart called on the UK government to pay compensation to the 1950s born women impacted by changes to their state pension age.

The RSPB's annual Big Garden Birdwatch is from Friday to Sunday this coming weekend. The most spotted garden birds in Shetland in recent years have been starling, house sparrow, blackbird, feral pigeon and the herring gull.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to the Vos Inspirer offshore platform standby vessel 55 nautical miles east-north-east of Unst. This was to take a crewman in need of medical attention to Tingwall.

Ariane Burgess, the Scottish Green member of the Scottish parliament for the Highlands and Islands, has welcomed the confirmation that school meal debt of almost £16,000, held by families in Shetland, has been written off, as has school meal debt by 28 other councils.

An analysis of Public Health Scotland's vaccination records has revealed that flu vaccination levels have slumped consistently since 2022. But Shetland is bucking the trend.

The Shetland North by-election for the Shetland Islands Council is on Thursday with two candidates, Natasha Cornick and Andrew Hall.