Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

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.