Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Shetland Islands Council has announced that the fund designed to remove barriers to employment in Shetland has been launched again this year.

The Shetland Islands Council has drawn attention to a series of public drop-in sessions, taking place later this month, to update residents on five main ferry-served islands about the ongoing work into future connectivity options, such as tunnels.

The family of the late Jim Tait and the Lerwick Methodist Church are to put on a retrospective exhibition of Jim’s art, including some previously unseen oil paintings, mainly of the maritime theme that Jim Tait excelled in.

SRUC, Scotland’s Rural College, which has had students from Shetland since it was created in 2012, has expanded the UK's first dedicated postgraduate pathway in agricultural communications by introducing a third module.

Offshore service provider North Star has secured multi-million-pound contracts for 17 vessels in its fleet, including Grampian class standby vessels and platform supply vessels.

White fish box landings. There are no markets at Lerwick and Scalloway today. The landings so far this week are 1736 boxes.

While there is no official announcement of a change to the RTS codes ending on the 28th of September, with the switch-off of the longwave transmitters, including at Burghead in Moray, Ovo has told customers that RTS will end on the 30th of June. The BBC Radio 4 audio on the frequency will end on the 27th of June, leaving silent carrier and RTS codes.