Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Due in Lerwick harbour today, for a fourth April visit since 2023, is a 48 metre by 16 metre Norwegian Navy Skjold-class corvette on military operations.

After a previous tender for design work to revamp the former Janet Courtney hostel in Lerwick, which did not proceed due to the demands of other work, the Shetland Islands Council has issued a new tender, with a deadline of the 5th of May.

HM Coastguard has confirmed that, as part of UK’s £1.6 billion Second Generation Search and Rescue Aviation Programme, the roll out of replacement search and rescue helicopters will be mix of AgustaWestland AW189 and the smaller AW139.

At Sumburgh and Stornoway, there will be a single AW189 at each base, instead of the previous practice, going back to the 1980s, of two S92 aircraft and before that two S61 aircraft

White fish box landings: 2 boats landed 129 boxes.

Mobile phone users on the O2 network, which includes Tesco Mobile and Sky Mobile, should be having better reception in years when in range of the Ward of Bressay base station.

Scottish Sea Farms’ latest newsletter features new figures on Shetland investment, local jobs and infrastructure supporting the region’s salmon sector.