News / In brief for 15 June 2010
Airlifted
AN OIL worker suffering from a suspected stroke was airlifted to Lerwick’s Gilbert Bain Hospital on Monday afternoon.
Shetland Coastguard was alerted just after 2pm to go to the Murchison oil platform, around 130 miles north east of Sumburgh.
The search and rescue helicopter landed the sick man at the Clickimin emergency landing site just after 4.30pm from where he was taken to the hospital by ambulance.
No details
SHETLAND MSP Tavish Scott is to table a parliamentary question about why the Scottish government has been unable to release the details of its latest round of funding under the Scottish Rural Development Programme.
Last week the SNP minority government said that 29 projects in Orkney and Shetland had been approved, but gave no details for any of the Shetland projects.
On Friday, a government spokeswoman said that six of the 29 projects were in Shetland, adding again that no further details were available.
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