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SIBC @sibc.radio · 30/09/2026

There is good news for Shetland pelagic fishermen after the north-east Atlantic mackerel stock was more than doubled for next year following the recent scientific assessment by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 30/09/2026

An NSTA report shows that production of oil equivalent from the UK continental shelf, including west, north-east and east of Shetland, was more cost-efficient last year, with spending per barrel 9 percent lower than in 2024.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 29/09/2026

Sculptures, story ships and dry ski slopes are among the suggestions that Shetland Arts is hearing so far from the Lerwick 28 survey.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 26/09/2026

Norwegian Fisherman's Association has criticised Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries after the 41 metre Norwegian pelagic boat Einar Erlend was escorted into Lerwick harbour on Tuesday night by the fisheries protection vessel Hirta and fined £4000 for lack of documentation for fishing for mackerel.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 25/09/2026

About 23 percent of households in Shetland use heating oil as their primary source of central heating. Now the Scottish Emergency Heating Oil Scheme, which was introduced in April to support low-income households struggling with the cost of heating oil, has been extended into winter.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 25/09/2026

Ahead of Scotland’s climate week, Deputy First Minister Jenny Gilruth has been visiting Shetland to see how local community organisations are supporting climate action.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 25/09/2026

Norwegian energy company Statkraft has sold its green hydrogen and ammonia projects in Shetland to Norwegian-owned Kentron Green Nordic, one undeveloped project being at Scatsta Airport and the other, also undeveloped, at Tagdale on the east side of Dales Voe.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 24/09/2026

Loganair has agreed a three-year partnership with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra to support the orchestra's engagement work in Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 24/09/2026

Members of the Shetland Islands Council approved an inter-island transport connectivity implementation route map which, subject to external funding, could see plans progress for two subsea tunnels and eight new inter-island ferries.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 22/09/2026

The Shetland Women football team has been drawn away against Rossvale Women’s Football Club in the second round of the Scottish Cup.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 21/09/2026

The flights to and from Sumburgh Airport were all pretty much on time and were relatively unaffected by the technical issue that lasted until late morning at the National Air Traffic Service’s Prestwick Centre.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 21/09/2026

It is three out of three for the Shetland Women Football team with a 2-1 away-win over Musselburgh Windsor in the Scottish Cup. Freya Leslie scored both goals for Shetland.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 20/09/2026

Police Scotland said that on Friday evening it had received a report that a possible ordnance device had been discovered at the rear of the Town Hall in Lerwick. A police cordon was put in place around the area and it was arranged for an explosiv to assess the device.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 19/09/2026

The Shetland Islands Council is inviting people across Shetland to take part in a new survey about the issues that they consider would matter most to the future of the isles.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 17/09/2026

Project partners of Operationalising Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation, an initiative developing science-based solutions to help the European aquaculture sector adapt to, and mitigate, climate change, met in Lerwick on Tuesday and yesterday.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 16/09/2026

Shetland Arts is inviting the whole of Shetland to help shape the bid for Lerwick to become the UK's first Town of Culture. Lerwick is one of 15 towns shortlisted from nearly 400 applicants and it is one of six towns competing in the small town category.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 15/09/2026

There are to be public drop-in sessions next week as part of the ongoing consultation on the Burravoe Primary School, which is threatened with closure, and the Skeld Primary School, which closed over two years ago.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 12/09/2026

This week the Scottish parliament backed an amendment from Scottish Liberal Democrat energy spokesperson Sanne Dijkstra-Downie calling for more local communities to receive more generous benefits from hosting onshore renewable energy developments.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 12/09/2026

The UK parliament’s all-party parliamentary group on fisheries has called on the UK government to treat fishing, and seafood, as part of the UK’s critical national infrastructure.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 10/09/2026

In a debate on the Falkland Islands in the House of Commons, Alistair Carmichael highlighted the “unchanged” principle of self-determination for the islands.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 09/09/2026

The design of two 140 metre freight-flex vessels has changed yet again with the two accommodation decks at the top now the full length of the superstructure, instead of stepping down deck-by-deck towards the stern, giving a sleeker outline.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 09/09/2026

Cable ship CS Sovereign, which has done much of the cable repairs around Shetland and Orkney in recent years, is 50 nautical miles west-south-west Sumburgh for emergency repairs on the six year old Havfrue America-Europe Connect-2 submarine fibre optic cable from New Jersey to Blaabjerg in Denmark.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 08/09/2026

The cable ship CS Sovereign has been at Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour to prepare for an emergency repair off Sumburgh on a transatlantic submarine fibre optic telecommunications cable passing through the Fair Isle Channel.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 08/09/2026

The Shetland Charitable Trust is holding its AGM on Thursday when the audited accounts for the year, to the end of March, will be signed off by the volunteer trustees. They will hear that the value of all of the trust’s funds stood at £453.9 million at the end. of the financial year.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 07/09/2026

The Andøya Space Centre in the north of Norway has beat the SaxaVord SpacePort in becoming the first in Europe to launch a rocket to deliver satellites into low earth orbit.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 07/09/2026

The seven thousand or so in Shetland, known to be living with arthritis and other musculoskeletal conditions, are being urged to add their voices to a major campaign calling on First Minister John Swinney to deliver Scotland’s first-ever MSK Action Plan.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 07/09/2026

The first two US-built Beechcraft King 360 air ambulance aircraft, to be based at Aberdeen and Glasgow, due to arrive at the end of the month as part of an upgrade of the air ambulance fleet, will have an extra seat to enable a parent to travel with their child.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 06/09/2026

It looks hopeful that the Scottish government will get around to awarding the new telecommunications gigabit broadband contract for Orkney and Shetland by the end of the year but the roll-out will take years to complete.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 05/09/2026

A second feasibility study could get underway in the coming months on a third sub-sea telecommunications cable between Shetland and the UK mainland.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 01/09/2026

Hannah Mary Goodlad has responded to a recent call at a Shetland Community Councils' forum for a moratorium on energy developments in Shetland. Both she and Alistair Carmichael were criticised for not immediately adopting the forum’s call for a moratorium on energy developments.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 01/09/2026

With the sailing intercounty returning after 24 years this past weekend, Shetland beat hosts the Orkney Sailing Club by 130 points to 122 points in two days of close racing at Hatston.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 31/08/2026

Today (Monday) is International Overdose Awareness Day, the world's largest annual campaign to end overdose, with an event in Lerwick’s south George’s Field this evening organised by Shetland Recovery Hub and Community Network.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 31/08/2026

After a wryneck was spotted in Skerries in April, another wryneck has been spotted in Lerwick near to the Anderson High School.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 31/08/2026

After five days for a rest stay at Holmsgarth 5 in Lerwick harbour, the 20 year old, 102 metre, French naval vessel Dupuy de Lôme, is to due leave to join a High-North Nato fleet keeping an eye on Russian naval activity around Shetland and as far north as Svaldbard.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 30/08/2026

Almost 500 repair works needed to police buildings across Scotland, with three of those police building repair works in Shetland.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 29/08/2026

The coastguard S92 helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to go to the NorthLink passenger ferry Hjaltland, which was in the Fair Isle Channel 8 nautical miles south-south-west of Sumburgh while on the way to Kirkwall and then Aberdeen. A passenger on board was in need of medical attention.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 28/08/2026

SSE has announced a record of £24.9 million in community investment across UK and Ireland. Shetland and Orkney shared £2,260,000 of that.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 28/08/2026

The Shetland Islands Council has revealed that this year’s Summer of Sport programme recorded over 5000 attendances.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 26/08/2026

A coastguard AW189 helicopter, normally based at Inverness but currently based at Sumburgh,is part of a familiarising exercise at Sumburgh, before the coastguard S92 helicopters based at Sumburgh since 2007 are replaced by AW189 from January.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 26/08/2026

Researchers from the Sea Mammal Research Unit and the Scottish Oceans Institute at the University of Saint Andrews have gained an insight into sea mammal behaviour when they become tangled in fishing nets.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 25/08/2026

Since the weekend Shetland has been enjoying weather as good as it has been at any time throughout the summer. Unfortunately it is still within the midge season and the midges have agreed that the weather, including the fairly low wind speeds, are perfect for them to be on the attack.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 24/08/2026

The children in Shetland that will be starting in primary one at the 25 primary schools in Shetland in the next academic year, that is August next year, will be the first, along with other primary schools in Scotland, to receive a Welcome to School backpack to help them start school.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 24/08/2026

Experience gained in three previous visits in the last six years of Allseas 382 metre twin-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit and the two previous visits of Allseas 177 metre barge Iron Lady, has meant that the transfer to Dales Voe Base of Taka’s North Cormorant is being achieved smoothly.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 23/08/2026

Since yesterday morning, work has continued on Allseas 177 metre barge Iron Lady, maneuvered by the tugs Fairplay 27, Fairplay 62 and BB Server, on the transfer of the 16,000 tonne topsides of Taqa’s North Cormorant platform to the laydown area of the Dales Voe Base.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 22/08/2026

The arrival at Dales Voe pilotage at 0800 of Allseas 382 metre twin-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit, with the topsides of the North Cormorant platform, is a result of the Pioneering Spirit cutting through the legs, 60 NM NEof Unst ahead of schedule at about 8 o’clock yesterday evening.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 21/08/2026

The count of the ballot for the Lerwick business improvement district scheme was completed in the council chamber this morning. With a return rate of 56 per cent, over 81 per cent, voted in favour of continuing

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 21/08/2026

As part of the Shetland Islands Council’s ongoing management restructure, the current finance manager since January 2023, Paul Fraser, will be the interim director of people and resources and Kristen Johnston, the current legal team leader, will be the director of governance.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 21/08/2026

Allseas 382 metre double-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit is at North Cormorant, 60 nautical miles north-east of Unst, having arrived there yesterday evening. Allseas 177 metre barge Iron Lady, under the tow of the tugs Fairplay 27 and Fairplay 62, is due in Dales Voe this morning.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 20/08/2026

Young people aged 14 to 25 in Shetland are being invited to put themselves forward for election for the next two-year term of the Scottish Youth Parliament from November this year to November 2028.

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SIBC @sibc.radio · 20/08/2026

Allseas double-hulled heavy-lift vessel Pioneering Spirit is passing about 100 nautical miles east of Shetland today on its way to North Cormorant, 60 nautical miles north-east of Unst, where it is due this evening.

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