Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Shetland’s newly-elected member of the Scottish Parliament, Hannah Mary Goodlad, is one of 64 newbies, in the largest number of new members of the Scottish parliament after an election since the first election in May 1999.

The last of the scaffolding, that had been surrounding the 123 year old Garrison Theatre since last summer, is expected to be removed today or tomorrow.

Shetland’s sail training vessel, the 126-year-old former fishing vessel the Swan, will host an open day this weekend to allow the public to view the forepeak which was upgraded over the winter months, including the toilet, shower and galley.

The cable ship CS Sovereign is back in the Rosebank field after sailing from Holmsgarth Five in Lerwick harbour. The CS Sovereign has been chartered to provide a five nautical mile sub-sea branch connection of the Shefa 2 Tórshavn to Maywick telecommunications cable to the upcoming location of the floating, production, storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank.

Offshore helicopter operations, at Sumburgh Airport and at Aberdeen Airport, are top of the agenda at Offshore Energy UK’s offshore aviation conference in Aberdeen next week.

White fish box landings: 4 boats landed about 900 boxes.

The energy suppliers E.ON and Ovo are thought to have set this week to announce their merger but the timetable is said to be provisional and could still slip. Ovo is still the dominant electricity supplier in Shetland since it took over SSE in January 2020.