Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

Following a review of the current licensing regime, the telecommunications regulator Ofcom has announced changes that will allow vessels, ports and harbours to benefit from faster and more reliable communications.

The changes will help support the modernisation of systems used by ships, ports and maritime authorities, including advanced digital messaging to share important navigation information.

For the first time an announcement from the National Energy System Operator onn winter resilience will apply to Shetland.

Shetland Arts third Shetland Story Slam event is on the first Sunday in November, when there will be a night of live, personal storytelling run by Liz Musser and Ruth Oliver.

The quarter-of-an-hour of very heavy rain yesterday brought flooding throughout Shetland, including on roads and where drains failed to cope.

Speaking in the House of Commons after this week’s government announcement on the Jackdaw gas field, Susan Murray, Liberal Democrat member of parliament for Mid Dunbartonshire, called on the UK government to put retraining for those working in the offshore oil and gas industry at the heart of its plans for the future of the industry.

Also speaking in the House of Commons, during a debate on agriculture, Alistair Carmichael, referred to the ongoing price inflation caused by the Iran war and increasing input costs for food producers.