Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Alistair Carmichael, chair of the House of Commons environment, food and rural affairs committee, has commented that the fishing and coastal growth fund stands a chance of doing real, lasting, good in fishing communities where, after successive governments, morale and trust is as low as the sea floor.

A day after EnQuest, operator of the Sullom Voe Terminal, announced a £500 million bond issue, as part of refinancing to reduce interest payments and to extend debt until 2031, Serica Energy, the new owner of the Shetland Gas Plant, has announced that it is to hold investor meetings ahead of a potential five-year senior unsecured bond issue.

After a few days in Manger Fjord, north of Bergen, the floating production storage and off-loading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank is berthed alongside in Ågotnes in the island of Sotra.

The Petrojarl Rosebank is to undergo the regulatory commissioning of almost three years of reconditioning in Drydocks World Dubai, having sailed from Dubi two months ago.

There have been two ferry NHS patient transfers. One was by the Leirna from Bressay and the other was by the Linga from Whalsay.

Those in Shetland, who are part almost half a million volunteers included in UK Biobank health information database, have been advised not to be concerned over the suspected data breach surfacing in China. This is because the data sets do not contain any personally identifying information.

Volunteers from Shetland in the UK Biobank include BRCA2 gene carriers, who have been involved in the Viking Gene Project and who can mostly trace their ancestry to Whalsay.