Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

In the last 20 years households in Shetland increased by 16 per cent while the population increased by 2 per cent.

For a brief period today (Thursday) the longest and shortest cruise ships of the season were in Lerwick harbour together.

NHS Shetland has announced additional opportunities for the two-dose MenB vaccination at the Grantfield Vaccination Centre.

The Scottish Greens have called on UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham to listen to science and to block production in the Rosebank field, west-north-west of Unst.

For the fifth time this year, blue-green algae has been confirmed in Shetland, this time in Spiggie Loch.

After Shetland’s sail training vessel the Swan, with ten trainees from Shetland on board for 14 nights, withdrew from the Stavanger to Aalborg leg of the 70th anniversary Tall Ships Races, because of the weather, it has been sailing through Limfjord, spending time in various ports.

The Lerwick lifeboat was launched on service to go to a yacht 40 nautical miles east-south-east of Lerwick.

In the wake of the SSPCA abandoning Scottish islands, including Shetland, a new charity shop is being set up by the Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary.