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  • Shetland Arts has launched its new look, with a rebrand and a website re-design. This includes a new logo, brighter colours and refreshed typography.

  • The Liberal Democrat candidate for Shetland, Emma Macdonald, has written to the first minister on, what she called, seven key questions on gaps in the SNP manifesto and the lack of ambition for Shetland.

  • The floating production storage and off-loading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank is heading north up the Norwegian coast, passing Bergen, accompanied by its Boka support vessels.

  • After weather-related delays, the Danish tug NH Server is towing the barge Selnes to Vagur in Faroe.

  • The offshore energy industry is holding an exercise next week to test its response to simulated threats involving suspicious vessels, drones and cyber-attacks.

  • With undersea infrastructure surrounding Shetland at risk from damage from an unfriendly source, there has also been a call for autonomous underwater vehicles to play a role in monitoring and defence.

  • White fish box landings: 4 boats landed about 1400 boxes.

  • A new study led by researchers at Queen’s University Belfast, in collaboration with Trinity College Dublin, has for the first time in the UK linked national radon mapping data with cancer statistics. Radon levels in Shetland are relatively low compared to most of Orkney.

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