Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

On closing of nominations, eight candidates are standing for Shetland in the Scottish parliament elections. The eighth was Peter Tait, from Walls, standing as independent, having stood in 2019 and 2021.

The other candidates, alphabetically by surname, are: Alex Armitage (Scottish Greens), Douglas Barnett (Scottish Conservative and Unionist), Vic Currie (Reform UK), John Erskine (Scottish Labour), Hannah Mary Goodlad (Scottish National Party), Emma Macdonald (Scottish Liberal Democrat) and Brian Nugent (Alliance to Liberate Scotland).

Loganair has completed 10 days of the UK's first demonstration of flights using an ALIA electric conventional take-off and landing aircraft, with an all-electric aircraft fleet being Loganair’s eventual ambition.

There is reminder of the installation of power cables under the main A970 road just north of Lerwick overnights between 7 pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday and 7 am Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

In the latest Sullom Voe shipping list, for March, there were three visits from crude oil tankers, two taking away Clair crude and one taking away Brent crude. Unusually, all of the month’s tanker exports from the Sullom Voe Terminal were to UK ports.

The Offshore Petroleum Regulator for Environment and Decommissioning has questioned Equinor’s updated environmental assessments for proposed emissions from the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst.

Production of the eleventh season of the crime drama Shetland is underway, including location shooting at a café converted into a Syrian deli in Steeple Square in Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire.