Also in the news / Also in the news 24 April 2026
- Farmers’ concern at SNP supermarket food proposal
- Sandwick energy drop-in event
- Claire Leveque murder documentary to air next week
SHETLAND Livestock Marketing Group (SLMG) has voiced its concern about SNP plans introduce a price cap on certain foods in supermarkets.
The party’s leader John Swinney announced last week that foods such as milk, eggs, cheese and rice would be limited to help people with the cost of living.
The SNP manifesto says that large supermarkets would have to “make one example line of the listed essential items available at the capped price”.
However NFU Scotland president Andrew Connon criticised the move, saying there was growing concern that it would have “unintended negative consequences” for farmers and crofters.
SLMG chairman Cecil Eunson called it a “very concerning situation”.
“The concern is very simple, nobody believes that the supermarket will take the hit, that hit will be passed on to the primary producer, you,” he said in a message to SLMG’s members.
The full list of confirmed Shetland candidates for the election on 7 May, in alphabetical order, are as follows: Alex Armitage (Greens), Douglas Barnett (Conservatives), Vic Currie (Reform UK), John Erskine (Labour), Hannah Mary Goodlad (SNP), Emma Macdonald (Liberal Democrats), Brian Nugent (Alliance to Liberate Scotland), Peter Tait (independent).
MEMBERS of the Sandwick community are invited to attend a drop-in event tomorrow (Saturday) on options to reduce the cost of energy for local residents.
Last year Sandwick Social and Economic Development Company (SSEDCo) successfully applied for funding to commission a pre-feasibility study into options for reducing the cost of energy bills.
The work was undertaken by consultants Voar, and a draft report has been presented.
The drop-in event will be held at the Carnegie Hall on Saturday from 1pm to 5pm.
A TWO-PART documentary exploring the death of Claire Leveque in Shetland and the murder trial for her boyfriend Aren Pearson will air next week.
Channel 5 will show Murder in Shetland: Trial by Jury on Monday and Tuesday night at 9pm.
The programme will feature rare in-court footage from Pearson’s trial in Edinburgh last year, and includes archive footage and interviews with Leveque’s family.
Pearson was found guilty last year of murdering Leveque at his mother’s address in Sandness on 11 February 2024. He was jailed for life.
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