Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

It is a week to go until the Scottish parliament elections, and the candidates have only seven days to convince voters to vote for them and not for someone else.

More reflagging work is due to get underway in the town centre next week, following similar work last year.

There has been widespread astonishment locally on the cost, after the Hjaltland Housing Association announced this week the £9.7 million development of the first 32, of what will be 300, new homes at Staneyhill in Lerwick.

There is to be a UK Citizenship ceremony in the Lerwick Town Hall next Wednesday with 4 participants. They are from the United States of America, the Philippines, and Czechia.

White fish box landings: 6 boats landed about 1500 boxes. :

The cruise ship today is the 165 metre Silver Endeavour at Mair’s East, arriving from a cruise of the Hebridean islands and before sailing this afternoon for nature sightseeing from off Noss.

An official statistics publication on the Scottish salmon and sea trout fishery last year shows that farmed-salmon escapees are infiltrating wild salmon catches.