Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

At the end of the month SSEN is holding public meetings in Brae and in Lerwick in connection with the development stage of the Shetland North Reinforcement Project. The project has the aim of enhancing the electricity distribution network with the installation of two new high voltage underground distribution cables between Gremista and the north of Shetland.

Andrea Manson, the convener of the Shetland Islands Council, has praised the local people for the positive reception given to the liberation convoy last week.

The same one of the coastguard helicopters based at Sumburgh has been tasked twice, for a casualty on the Glen Lyon floating production storage and offloading vessel and for a helicopter NHS patient transfer from Kirkwall to Inverness.

What used to be named the Jigsaw search and rescue helicopter service, funded by a coalition of over 20 oil and gas operators, has reached 1,000 taskings, mostly medical evacuations. The service was originally provided by Bond, with the Super Puma helicopters Bond 1 and Bond 2 based on the Miller platform and at Sumburgh airport from March 2006.

The cruise ships today are the 253 metre Aidasol at anchor and possibly with bicycles to bring ashore and the 109 metre Gann at Victoria Pier East.

White fish box landings; 3 boats landed about 500 boxes.

For the first time the scale of transformational opportunity facing the Highlands and Islands economy has been quantified, including the value of clusters of initiatives in Shetland.