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  • The voluntary service members of the local theatre group Open Door Drama have been presented with the King’s Award for Voluntary Service, the first voluntary organisation in Shetland to be recognised with the award.

  • Shetland Arts has announced the six commissioning opportunities for this year from the Shetland Arts Commissioning Fund.

  • The 333 metre Russian registered very large crude carrier Marinera, formerly the Bella 1, is being towed by three tugs across the Atlantic Ocean to off Galveston from its anchorage since January five nautical miles north-west of Burghead in the Moray Firth.

  • As the mackerel quota controversy rumbles on, the Scottish rural affairs secretary Mairi Gougeon has written to Waitrose after Waitrose decided to suspend the sourcing of Scottish-caught mackerel.

  • At a customer satisfaction of 65 per cent, from a sample of only 41 passengers, Loganair was eleventh out of 14 in a Which? survey of short-haul airlines.

  • Ithaca Energy, which wholly owns the Cambo field, has submitted a consent application for the Tornado gas field.

  • Last week NHS Shetland applied restrictions to Ward 3 at the Gilbert Bain Hospital and then lifted them this week. Now Ward 1 has been restricted to essential visits only.

  • A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to the Clair field, 30 nautical miles west-north-west of Eshaness.

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