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In the House of Commons on Thursday, Alistair Carmichael is on the order paper for a departmental question for the cabinet office minister. Mr Carmichael will ask what recent discussions the minister has had with the secretary of state for science, innovation and technology on the potential merits of designating genomics databases as critical national infrastructure. Mr Carmichael asked a similar question of the previous minister in April last year, Mr Carmichael having lead a Westminster Hall debate the month before on genomics and national security.

A three-bedroom new-build property at Sandveien has been occupied in the first return of tenants who were moved out before the rebuild. The other tenants are expected to move in over the coming days and weeks, with most in time for Christmas.

The members of the Shetland Islands Council’s policy and resources committee have approved by five votes to four additional funding of £210,000 for a 3G sports pitch at the former North Loch area in Lerwick, increasing the council’s total to £690,000.

Also at the policy and resources committee, the council’s deputy leader, Gary Robinson warned that the council may struggle to complete the redevelopment project at the former high school site at Bellevue without seeking additional funding

White fish box landings: Not counting small boats, 5 boats landed about 700 boxes.

Loganair’s domestic routes to Shetland and to Orkney could be directly impacted in a pay dispute involving Edinburgh airport tanker drivers, which could ground flights from Edinburgh over festive season.

Natasha Cornick is the first candidate to announce their intention to stand in the Shetland North by-election for the Shetland Islands Council next month, following the recent resignation of Tom Morton.

In May 2020, during the consultation by the energy regulator Ofgem over the interconnector to Shetland, the Japanese-owned power station specialist BWSC claimed that it could offer a liquefied natural gas, or LNG, solution to Shetland.However new reports from Cornell University and by the World Bank have found that, while liquefied natural gas emits less air pollutants, the fugitive methane, in emissions, is a more dangerous greenhouse gas than is carbon dioxide.