Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish parliamentary election is over bar the counting, which is being undertaken during the day today, rather than overnight.

The Hjaltland Housing Association has responded to the ongoing public concern about dust from the Staneyhill housing development, including that expressed at the recent meeting of the Lerwick Community Council.

The long service and commitment of NHS Shetland community nurses and midwives have been celebrated by their colleagues.

The coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to a fishing boat about 50 nautical miles west of Unst.

White fish box landings: 8 boats landed about 1500 boxes. The landings so far this week are about 7400 boxes.

Pupils at the Baltasound Primary School have been working with the endangered species conservation programme Species on the Edge, and he dialect promotion group Shetland for Wirds, to find a local name for one of Shetland’s rarest beetles, the Plantain Leaf Beetle.

Shell, which used to have a base and jetty at Holmsgarth in Lerwick, is the latest energy company to announce huge profits for the first quarter of this year as a result of the Iran war.