News / In brief for 11 April
More support for Moving On
EMPLOYMENT project Moving On has received more than £25,000 in funding ensuring the charity can continue with their work.
The Robertson’s Trust have awarded £15,000 towards the costs of a core support worker for two years. This worker will assist people mainly with learning and physical disabilities into employment, education or training.
Scottish Government funding under the Wider Role project are giving £10,626 towards the costs of a mental health support worker for one year.
Co-ordinator Kellie Naulls said: “We are delighted that we have been successful in attracting this new funding to Shetland, particularly in these difficult financial times. Securing these monies ensures that we can continue to help people to fulfil their full potential and overcome the barriers to employment they face.”
NorthLink installs thermostats
LIFELINE ferry operator NorthLink is to give passengers the power to control for themselves the temperature in the cabins onboard the Hjaltland and the Hrossey.
The centrally controlled air conditioning system, installed when the vessels were built in 2002, have often been the subject of comment when passengers thought it was either too warm or too cold in the cabins.
Installation of a retrofit system will get underway soon with contractors travelling with the ships while installing the new “roof air supply duct controlled by a temperature setting thermostat in each cabin”.
NorthLink managing director Bill Davidson said: “While installation is in progress small blocks of cabins – up to ten at a time – will be taken out of service but for many sailings we expect that cabin availability will not be an issue and we will aim to ensure that general inconvenience to passengers can be kept to a minimum.”
A bad day for air travel
THE misty conditions on Saturday played havoc with air travel as most flights in and out of Sumburgh had to be cancelled or diverted to Kirkwall, in Orkney.
Only the morning flights to Edinburgh and Aberdeen left near to schedule while all other departures for the day had to be cancelled “due to fog at Sumburgh”.
The first flight from Aberdeen to Sumburgh was also cancelled while most of the other incoming flights were diverted to Kirkwall airport.
Police issue lots of fixed penalties
POLICE in Shetland said on Monday morning that they had issued 12 fixed penalties for a variety of offences, including several for urinating in a public place, all in Lerwick, drinking in a public place in Lerwick, and causing a disturbance, in Mossbank.
Others fixed fines were given for motoring offences, including failure to wear a seat belt.
A spokesman added that officer also had to deal with two reports of loud music, and had seized alcohol from underaged on two occasions.
Belmont House to open
THE chairman of the National Trust for Scotland, Sir Kenneth Calman, will be in Shetland later this month to officially open the now fully restored Belmont House, on the island of Unst.
It has taken the Belmont Trust 15 years, between 1996 and 2010, to restore the Edwardian country house to its former glory.
The official opening will be on 30 April on 11.45am.
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