Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Following our story last week that GeoForce Technical Services was under contract to Reach Subsea for geotechnical work on what is called Shetland HVDC Link 2, between Shetland and the Scottish mainland, SSEN Transmission has confirmed that Braewick in Eshaness has been identified as one of the potential landfall locations.

GPS speed trackers are showing that, regularly, over half of all road traffic in Lerwick is not adhering to the 20 miles per hour limits and thirty miles per hour limits.

As the Electoral Commission calls for the Scottish Parliament election to be free of abuse and intimidation, SIBC has once again highlighted that it will not carry knocking-copy from any local candidate directly attacking any other local candidate.

The Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party has chosen Douglas Barnett as its candidate for Shetland in the Scottish parliament elections on Thursday the 7th of May. Douglas Barnett is a student at Aberdeen University and, being aged 21, he is the youngest of the seven candidates.

A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked for a helicopter NHS patient transfer to Aberdeen.

On returning from Aberdeen to Sumburgh the helicopter was diverted directly to assist the police in a search, along with the Lerwick lIfeboat and the Mid Yell coastgurd rescue team, for a missing person in the Mid Yell area.

The main worship area of Lerwick Methodist Church, which dates from 1871, is to reopen for services and activities on Easter weekend after being closed since January for repairs, some a consequence of the storm of 1993, which lifted the roof and allowed water to come in.