In brief for 17 August 2011

Oil worker airlifted

THE BOND Jigsaw helicopter on Tuesday evening airlifted an injured oil worker from the Piper Bravo installation, 90 miles south east of Sumburgh, to Lerwick.

The medivac was co-ordinated by Aberdeen coastguard who requested Shetland’s assistance at around 6.35pm.

The helicopter landed at the Clickimin landing site at just before 8pm for the injured man to be transferred to the Gilbert Bain Hospital.

Sandwick school closes early

PUPILS at the Sandwick junior high school had an unexpected afternoon off on their first day back at school, after a contractor cut the mains water supply for much of the village.

Head teacher Stuart Clubb said he had no option but to send pupils home.

Scottish Water restored supplies later the same day after Sandwick had been without water for around two hours.

Salome at Garrison

ACCLAIMED choreographer Andy Howitt from Aberdeen is working with Shetland Youth Theatre on their latest innovative production, a stage version of Oscar Wilde’s classic Salome.

The company has set the action in a jazz club at the time of prohibition, with King Herod at the head of a mafia family.

Howitt, director of Aberdeen’s City Moves, has been devising the famous dance of the seven veils with local performer Harry Witham, who plays Salome, Herod’s step daughter who seeks the head of John the Baptist.

Twenty actors have spent the past month working on the production, which plays at Lerwick’s Garrison Theatre from 25 to 27 August, with £8 and £6 tickets available from Shetland Box Office on 01595 745555. The production is not suitable for primary age children.