Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

The Anderson High School has become the first school in Shetland to be awarded a silver Reading School award by the Scottish Book Trust.

The members of the Shetland Islands council’s policy and resources committee are to be asked to consider a report recommending an increase in council tax of 7.3 per cent. [LDRS]

After suspending 48-hour strike action involving over 400 Bilfinger workers on asets around Shetland are now being balloted over a new pensions offer.

Ariane Burgess has expressed her concern for the workers, families and communities who face uncertainty as Forres-base rocket manufacturer Orbex goes into administration.

There was a two-vehicle road collision at the Scalloway end of the Black Gaet.

This year could be like the 1950s again, with Royal Navy vessels regularly passing Shetland and Royal Airforce aircraft flying overhead.

Members of the Scottish parliament, including Beatrice Wishart, brain tumour patients and families who have lost loved ones, have marked the first anniversary of the Scottish Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence.