Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Liberal Democrat proposals for a price cap for those who rely on heating oil has been backed by Alistair Carmichael.

In announcing the latest round of funding in the Islands Programme, the deputy first minister Kate Forbes underlined that Scotland's islands had tremendous potential.

NHS Shetland has committed itself to becoming an endometriosis friendly employer and pledging to support colleagues impacted by endometriosis by joining the endometriosis friendly employer scheme.

Angharad Hopkinson, political campaigner for Greenpeace UK, has commented that the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west- north-west of Unst, would produce oil for export, doing nothing for UK energy bills but accelerating climate change. 90 per cent of tankers leaving the Sullom Voe Terminal take their cargoes of crude to overseas destinations.

Meanwhile the floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank has now passed south of Madagascar and is heading for the Cape of Good Hope and then on to its eventual anchorage in the Rosebank field.

This is the South Mainland Up Helly Aa day and night, the tenth of this year’s fire festivals, with two still to come.

A coastguard Leonardo AW189 helicopter from Prestwick was tasked for NHS patient transfers.