Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The UK defence secretary John Healey has said that there is "no evidence" that the Russian submarines in the North Atlantic, west and north of Shetland, caused any damage to UK subsea cables or pipelines.

First Minister John Swinney has confirmed multi-million pound support for Scotland’s rural and islands areas, including an interim relief fund of £300 per household in islands areas for energy costs this coming winter.

The Shetland Islands Council is seeking views on the proposed replacement Brae community football pitch.

The 2018 built, 82 metre, pelagic vessel Serene, which left Whalsay for the last time in February, and has since been on the herring fishery and a visit to Skagen, has arrived at Fuglafjøður in Faroe, renamed Faghraberg and to be repainted from red to blue. The 85 metre replacement Serene is due at the end of next year.

In response to calls from the fishing industry for a long-term strategy, the UK parliament’s all-party parliamentary group on fisheries has launched a call for evidence to help develop a cross-party action plan on fisheries.

In Lerwick, for a fourth April visit since 2023 of a 48 metre by 16 metre Norwegian Navy Skjold-class corvette on military operations, is the Gnist. It was expected to be the Skjold, which is instead in Stavanger.

The 240 metre cruise ship Viking Vela has cancelled its arrival on Saturday because of the forecast. There are now expected to be 145 cruise ship arrivals for Lerwick harbour this year, down from 151, after eight cancellations and two additions.