Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Unite union has clarified that the strike action at Aberdeen airport has been suspended and not yet resolved. Unite member ICTS baggage security staff at Aberdeen airport are voting on a new pay offer.

Two colleagues, Rob Thick from Prestwick and Hadley Gibson from Carlisle, are cycling across the United Kingdom, from Land’s End, as part of a ten-day, 1000-mile cycle challenge, ending at Sumburgh Airport on Friday.

New figures show that output from the Buzzard field, about 124 nautical miles south-south-east of Sumburgh, dropped sharply last year.

The maritime emergency services in Shetland have had a busy week with eleven incidets.

There has been the first ever medical evacuation from the floating production storage and offloading vessel Petrojarl Rosebank, although there have been two previous medical evacuations from support vessels in the Rosebank fielr.

The internet service outage that started on Thursday affected internet customers in different parts of Shetland.

Meanwhile O2 has said that it will be carrying out essential work at the 5G Bressay base station next week, stating that this will be to improve the local network.

Living Lerwick, operator of the town centre business improvement district, has issued its business plan to members as it prepares for a renewal ballot for a fourth BID period for five years from later this year to 2031.