Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Scottish Liberal Democrat candidate for Shetland in the Scottish parliament election in two months, Emma Macdonald, has said that the Scottish government’s national fuel poverty scheme has helped only 3.6 per cent of households, or 390 households, in Shetland since it was launched eleven years ago.

After a 62 hour journey, and leaving Lerwick on Wednesday evening, the Yell Sound ferry Daggri berthed in Greenock just after mid-day on Saturday for its annual docking.

The Highlands and Islands member of the Scottish parliament, Ariane Burgess, has now called on the Scottish government to look again at freight charges on lifeline ferry routes for islanders.

The UK government is to allocate £20 million to Scotland as part of a £500 million fund for national space programmes and to accelerate the development of the likes of spaceport infrastructure.

Alistair Carmichael has written to the chancellor of the exchequer, the UK government business secretary and the chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority to demand clarity on government action to tackle the rapidly increasing cost of heating oil and red diesel, due to the Iran war.

In a Scottish parliament debate on ferries, Beatrice Wishart highlighted longstanding issues, during her six and a half years as a member of the Scottish parliament, that both the Scottish government and Transport Scotland had not seriously engaged with.

Shetland is fourth equal of the thirty-two local authorities in Scotland for the lowest percentage of obesity.

UHI Shetland’s marine science and technology department was mentioned several times at the Lantra Scotland Awards for land-based and aquaculture skills.