The Shetland Islands Council has issued a temporary closure notice for this wekend on a short distance on the main road north-west of the Gremista junction.

The Shetland Fishermen’s Association has proposed stability measures for cod stock in response to advice from the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea to reduce the northern-shelf cod quota to zero next year.

In the year to March this year, the Shetland Care Attendant Scheme delivered 13,650 hours of care to 87 carers and their families, helping to reduce hospital and residential admissions.

Shetland had the third lowest, in the 2020 to 2024 average, of the age-standardised mortality rate of alcohol-specific deaths of the 32 council areas of Scotland.

The 154 metre, Dutch heavy lift vessel Happy Sky is at the Greenhead Base to discharge topside equipment following decommissioning work at Jetty One at the Sullom Voe Terminal.

It appears that there are likely to be some objections to the plans by the Shetland Islands Council for traffic calming measures in King Harold Street, Burgh Road, Gilbertson Road and South Road.

The Shetland Charitable Trust has confirmed that the grant money generated from the sale of the restored Belmont House in Unst, and awarded under the Belmont Built Heritage Grant Scheme, has now been all used up with the last grants awarded.

The second Soothend Walk in solidarity with Gaza, organised by Shetland South councillor Alex Armitage and Dr Lucy Livingstone, raised more money for the same two charities than the first one last year.

A Westwood Energy report, commissioned by Offshore Energies UK, outlines the impact of the eleven terminals where Britain’s offshore oil and gas comes ashore. Two of the eleven terminals are in Shetland: the Sullom Voe Terminal which opened in 1978, and the Shetland Gas Plant which opened in 2016.

Two rowing teams, one from Lerwick and one from Burra, rowing Shetland yoals, both did well by coming first in their categories in the 21.6 mile London Great River Race with over 300 boats rowing up-river from Millwall to East Richmond and passing under 28 bridges.

Now is a chance for organisations in Shetland, who are concerned about the time spent by staff in replying to freedom of information requests, to respond to the consultation on the Scottish government’s Freedom of Information Reform (Scotland) Bill.

The aero-generator blade that arrived at the Greenhead Base last month on the 88 metre Dutch cargo boat Baltic Wave from Vestas Wind Systems’ large blade facility in Taranto in Italy has been delivered to the Viking Windfarm.

There are now three candidates for the Shetland constituency in the Scottish parliament election in May. The latest is Labour’s John Erskin, who is joining Emma Macdonald, who is standing for the Liberal Democrats and Hannah Mary Goodlad who is standing for the SNP.

There is another delay in the changeover of the Papa Stour linkspan, this time because of the weather, but the Shetland Islands Council said that it was still hoped to carry out the linkspan replacement this year.

Allseas has won the decommissioning contract from TAQA, the UK subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Energy Company, for the engineering, preparation, removal and disposal of the 37 year old Brae Alpha platform, about 100 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland has gone to the alert level of water scarcity after a week at the early warning level and four weeks at the normal level.

Ava Williamson and Beenie-Ann Wood have been elected the two new members to represent Shetland in the by-election for the Scottish Youth Parliament.

Final preparations are underway for the second Soothend Walk in solidarity with Gaza, organised by Shetland South councillor Alex Armitage and Dr Lucy Livingstone.

Due to dredging off the Loofa Baa and the North Ness, Lerwick harbour’s south entrance is closed to large vessels heading to and from the north harbour, including Holmsgarth and the Greenhead Base. This includes the NorthLink vessels, which will use the north entrance.

Shetland Arts has announced the appointment of Professor Catriona Macdonald, one of Shetland’s best known fiddle players and composers, as its new director of creativity and impact.

Coastal communities in Scotland, such as those in Shetland, are being invited to apply for new grants to support the management of local marine and coastal protected areas.

Those in remote, rural and island areas like Shetland are being encouraged to respond to a consultation opened yesterday by the telecommunications regulator Ofcom on proposals to revise, and to improve, the way Ofcom licenses non-geostationary satellite orbit systems.

Jobcentre Plus has commented on the latest employment statistics for July saying that it was stepping up efforts to support young people in Shetland as they make the leap from education into employment with a focus on practical skills, confidence-building, and personalised guidance.

Jobcentre Plus has commented on the latest employment statistics for July saying that it was stepping up efforts to support young people in Shetland as they make the leap from education into employment with a focus on practical skills, confidence-building, and personalised guidance.

As the Scottish parliament debates the Victims, Witnesses and Justice Reform (Scotland) Bill, including the removal of the not proven verdict, Lerwick Sheriff Court has delivered at least two not proven verdicts in the last six years.

The age-standardised mortality rates, from National Records of Scotland, of probable suicide deaths by NHS board area from 2020 to 2024, show that the Western Isles and Orkney have the highest rates in Scotland and Shetland has the lowest, with Shetland having second lowest local authority rate.

The Shetland Islands Council has released images prepared by Macduff Ship Design for a £11.76 million, 33 metre by 10.8 metre, drive-through relief ferry, with room for 15 cars.

With the imminent retiral of the current directors of Hunter & Morrisons, DITT Construction has announced that it has agreed to transfer the Hunter and Morrisons work-force to DITT employment.

Funds invested globally by the Shetland Charitable Trust are back to the value they were three years ago after falling by over £100 million pounds.

What was claimed to be an email from a journalist from Shetland contacting the daughter of a man who is well known in Norway for faking his own death may well have been sent by the father of the woman himself.

When the Shetland Women’s football team won the Highlands and Islands League Cup against Sutherland 7 - nil, Freya Leslie scored a hat-trick and Rhea Nicolson and Lisa Goudie both scored twice. Freya Leslie was named player of the match.

The Shetland Women’s football team won the Highlands and Islands League Cup, with this season their first ever appearance in the competition. In the final against Sutherland, Shetland took the lead after only 38 seconds and dominated the match. The final score was 7 - nil.

The coastguard helicopter was tasked for a medical eviction from a platform supply vessel 55 nautical miles south-east of Sumburgh and the Lerwick coastguard rescue team assisted when two passengers on the cruise ship Costa Favolosa, at anchor in Lerwick, required medical attention in hospital.

Misleading advertising practices, monitored in potential agricultural land sales in Orkney, Shetland and the rest of the Highlands and Islands, is to be highlighted in the Scottish parliament by Liam McArthur, member of the Scottish parliament for Orkney.

After a windfarm blade was damaged at the Viking Windfarm in October last year, shedding debris on the ground, an entire three blade assembly and parts of the generator, or gearbox, detached in one piece and fell to the ground near Perth.

The notice of election for community councils has been published by the Shetland Islands Council. This invites those eligible, and interested in representing their local community, to submit their nomination within the next five weeks.

The cruise ship today is the 229 metre Viking Saturn at anchor rather than Mair’s East because of the windy weather. This extra visit brings the total of cruise ship visits expected in Lerwick harbour this year back to 133, but that remains less than last year’s record of 134.

Despite most of Lerwick’s roads now having 20 miles per hour limits, there is evidence that the limits are being ignored, perhaps deliberately, as was the case with the previous limits. To combat this, the Shetland Islands Council is proposing more speed bumps.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland has gone to the early warning level of water scarcity after four weeks at the normal level.

The remaining vessels that have been involved in the Grutness harbour project, the multicat utility vessel Paul D and the barges G504 and CW10, are in Lerwick harbour preparing to head south, possibly at the weekend.

As the design for the new Fair Isle ferry is released, current work on the Grutness ferry terminal is due to be completed in the coming days. The ferry design has a forward bridge, 12 passenger accommodation and stern ro-ro ready, although no linkspans are planned for Grutness and North Haven.

The Aith lifeboat was launched on service when a small fishing boat broke down off Scalloway. However the lifeboat was stood down off Vaila then another boat took the casualty under tow to Scalloway.

As reported previously, the ownership of Victory will transfer, by the end of this year, to Adura, the joint venture set up by Shell and Equinor UK and based in Aberdeen.

Production from Shell’s Victory gas field, 30 nautical miles north-west of Unst, is due to start any day now, after which the Shetland Gas Plant will be producing 10 per cent of the UK’s gas needs, but no gas for Shetland.

Alex Armitage of the Shetland Greens has welcomed the announcement, at this week’s external transport forum, that lie-flat pods could be made available on the NorthLink ferries Hjaltland and Hrossey, as well as the forth-coming new freight vessels.

Scott Hammond, the newly appointed chief executive officer of the SaxaVord Spaceport, has welcomed the Scottish Affairs Committee report on Scotland's space launch sector, especially in advocating greater UK government funding.

This year will now not be a record year for cruise ship visits to Lerwick harbour. After two more cancellations there is now a net total of 132 cruise ship visits that have been, or are due, for Lerwick harbour this year. Last year remains the record year, with a final net total of 134.

Ofcom will move ahead with plans that could be of considerable benefit to remote, rural and islands areas like Shetland. Ofcom is to make the UK the first country in Europe to allow regular smartphones to connect to satellites when there is no coverage from mobile masts on the ground.

After an outage of a few hours on Airable (Frontier) system smart internet radios, such as by Roberts, Majority and Pure, SIBC and all other stations should be back to normal.

This is a Shure SM7 made in USA and bought in 1980 at the early stages of setting up SIBC. The original pop shield is long decayed to be replaced by A7WS, swapped for cleaning monthly. We bought 4 more SM7 made in Mexico as we came on air in 1987. Now every podcast has one, or a new variation.