Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It has now been confirmed that the NorthLink passenger ferry Hjaltland will enter the Tyne at 6 AM tomorrow (Saturday), after more than four days of sailing around.

The long-running pay dispute of Sodexo Unite-union members at the Sullom Voe Terminal is over after the members overwhelmingly backed an improved pay offer.

This (Friday into Saturday) is the Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa day, the fourth of twelve fire festivals until the end of March.

The House of Commons environment, food and rural affairs select committee has called on United Kingdom government ministers to secure a 24-month implementation period of any sanitary and phytosanitary deal with the European Union to protect UK farmers, crofters and food producers.

Meanwhile the Scottish Crofting Federation has commented on the stage 2 amendments in the Crofting and Scottish Land Court Bill acknowledging that the amendments have brought a number of significant improvements that the federation had campaigned for.

The Viking Genes team has given an update on the risk of hereditary haemochromatosis in the UK and Ireland with the risk in Shetland lower than from BRCA2 gene variants.

Transport Scotland has published two reports on the responses to its consultation on the next Northern Isles ferry service contract, which takes effect from June 2028.