Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Shetland will be represented by a team of 175 at this year’s International Island Games in Orkney. The team of 146 competitors and 29 officials will be the largest to travel from Shetland to the games.

Now that it is warmer, the Shetland Islands Council has said that it will soon begin its summer programme of surface dressing of local roads.

As Beatrice Wishart leads a debate in the Scottish Parliament on the closing down of the radio-teleswitch service, Alistair Carmichael called on the UK government to require energy suppliers to compensate households in full if they requested a replacement meter but failed to receive it before the shutdown.

Shetland Arts has issued a reminder of the BOW Collective presenting its Bodies of Water show for two nights in Mareel next week.

The SaxaVord Spaceport and one of its German rocket launch partners, Rocket Factory Augsburg, have been showing the spaceport’s launch capabilities to NATO delegates, although the SaxaVord Spaceport has yet to launch its first rocket.

Members of the Shetland Islands Council, past and present, have been marking fifty years of the Shetland Islands Council and its first meeting on the 16th of May 1975.

Later this year education officials are to look at pupil numbers at the Burravoe Primary School to consider whether a possible mothballing process should take place.