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Post Office Limited has had a change of mind on closing the Burravoe Post Office, without replacement, this summer. Alistair Carmichael said that he had written to Post Office management to determine their intentions and the reason for a lack of consultation.

Back in Lerwick harbour to discharge at Dales Voe, is the 153 metre heavy lift cargo boat BBC Ruby with its second cargo this month due for installation at Rosebank

The tall ship Cauahtémoc, that was in Lerwick harbour at Holmsgarth 5 in August 1999, was the one that was in the accident with the Brooklin Bridge, on New York’s East River, resulting in deaths and injury among those manning the yards.

The new United Kingdom – European Union fisheries agreement is for 12 years, from the end of June next year until the end of June 2038. In return, the UK gets agreement on reducing checks on food and agricultural products exported into the Eu, including fish and farmed salmon.

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As expected there is disagreement between the fish catching sector and the salmon farming and fish exporting sectors on the new United Kingdom – European Union agreement.

The SaxaVord Spaceport and one of its German rocket launch partners, Rocket Factory Augsburg, have been showing the spaceport’s launch capabilities to NATO delegates, although the SaxaVord Spaceport has yet to launch its first rocket

The SaxaVord Spaceport and one of its German rocket launch partners, Rocket Factory Augsburg, have been showing the spaceport’s launch capabilities to NATO delegates, although the SaxaVord Spaceport has yet to launch its first rocket.

Shetland will be represented by a team of 175 at this year’s International Island Games in Orkney. The team of 146 competitors and 29 officials will be the largest to travel from Shetland to the games.

The Unite union has secured a four per cent wage rise, backdated to April, for North Air tanker drivers and airfield operators based at Scottish airports, including at Sumburgh Airport.

Viking Genes Shetland has announced the launch of a Shetland community screening project aimed at making Shetland the first part of Scotland to be genetically screened as part of a free preventative healthcare campaign.

The Viking Genes Shetland Community Screening Project is to a background where parts of Shetland have a seven-times higher risk of developing breast, ovarian and prostate cancer when compared to mainland Scotland.

Beatrice Wishart has led a debate in the Scottish Parliament on the closing down of the radio-teleswitch service. This was to a background of confusion on whether radio-teleswitch system in Scotland updates time only on RTS meters, or whether it controls things more complex.

Figures for this past Monday, from the National Oceanography Centre and the Met Office, show that areas of sea around Shetland were much warmer than usual for the time of year, and among the warmest in Scotland.

In the latest water situation report from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, Shetland remains at the alert level for water scarcity.

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A seventy year old woman was pronounced dead at the scene yesterday after she fell from cliffs on the north-west side of Saint Ninian’s Isle, where the cliffs are up to 40 metres high. The next of kin were informed.

Called out to attend the cliff incident were coastguard rescue teams, a coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh, the stand-in Lerwick lifeboat Fraser Flier, the Sumburgh rescue rigid inflatable of the Scottish Fire and Rescue service, the ambulance service and the police.

A widespread power cut affected homes and businesses in the South Mainland today. It its peak, over 1,900 customers were without power. The afternoon flight to Sumburgh from Aberdeen was diverted and the return flight was cancelled.

Under the category of Post Office Limited, a petition has been lunched on Change.org to keep the Burravoe post office running