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  • Hannah Mary Goodlad has welcomed the first Highlands and Islands Aviation Summit next week, describing it as a critical first step towards transforming lifeline air services to, and from, Shetland and communities across the Highlands and Islands.

  • Voluntary Action Shetland has announced the launch of the 2026 VAS Volunteering Awards, to recognise the volunteering and acts of kindness happening throughout Shetland.

  • NHS Shetland has appointed Georgina Roberts as its new deputy chief executive and director of people and culture, taking up her duties in November.

  • The Shetland Women football team has been drawn away against Rossvale Women’s Football Club in the second round of the Scottish Cup.

  • The S92 coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to a Scottish fishing boat, 75 nautical miles east-south-east of Sumburgh where a crewman was in need of medical attention.

  • Scottish government proposals suggest that Scotland's 32 councils could be replaced by six to 10 regional authorities but that separate set-ups would be required for Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles.

  • Flylogix, the Solent-on-Sea based unmanned aerial system specialist, has undertaken its first survey from Shetland into Norwegian waters with a remotely controlled unmanned aircraft.

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