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  • Over the coming months there are to be nine community conversation events, three this month, starting on Monday, four in December and two to be confirmed in January.

  • At first minister’s questions in the Scottish parliament yesterday Beatrice Wishart pressed John Swinney on the need for a statement from the Scottish government following the collapse of Eastern Airways.

  • The Shetland Islands Council’s economic development manager Tommy Coutts has said, in responding to a Scottish government consultation, that Shetland has a “fundamental right” to benefit from offshore wind developments in the waters around the isles. [LDRS]

  • Scottish roots singer-songwriter Findlay Napier, who performed at the Shetland Folk Festival in 2006 and 2011, is bringing his solo show to Shetland this weekend.

  • White fish box landings: 9 boats landed over 1000 boxes. Pelagic fish landings: Landing mackerel at Lerwick is the Zephyr.

  • The coastguard S-92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to the 219 metre cruise ship Vasco da Gama, which, at the time, was 80 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh while on the way from Lerwick to Hamburg.

  • The Change.org petition to oppose the Faroe Islands hosting the 2027 Island Games, because of the whale grinds, has passed its target of 35,000 signatures, with a new target of 50,000.

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