Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

For the first time ever, there has been a helicopter medical evacuation from the Rosebank field, 85 nautical miles west-north-west of Unst.

NatureScot has launched a consultation on Scotland’s peatlands. About half of Shetland is peatland, compared to about a quarter of Scotland.

Speaking in the House of Commons during a government statement on the economic response to the conflict in Iran, Alistair Carmichael pressed the chancellor of the exchequer to unlock fairer support for farmers and food producers.

Plane spotters in Shetland will be looking out for flights overhead by the first of three new Wedgetail surveillance aircraft to be stationed at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.

The 153 metre heavy-lift vessel BBC Amethyst is due from the Tyne at the Greenhead Base with reels for the Rosebank project.

700 workers are set for summer strike action in pay disputes with companies based at Edinburgh Airport and Glasgow Airport, and possbly Aberdeen, and this could impact on flights to and from Shetland.

It has emerged that the refurbishment of the two blocks of NHS staff accommodation at Montfield in Lerwick is being undertaken by NHS Education for Scotland rather than by the Shetland NHS Board.