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Also in the news 3 November 2026

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A road sign reads "Welcome to Sullom Voe Terminal. Please drive carefully" next to a 30 mph speed limit sign. Industrial tanks and a vehicle are visible in the background.
  • Greens’ just transition fund call
  • Lack of consultation over Westside chapels ‘disappointing’
  • Unite says Loganair crew got a ‘good deal’
  • Two food and drink winter warmer events
A group of people with torches walking down a street.
  • Applications open for Junior Up Helly Aa
  • US Consulate General visit
  • UHI staff sign up for women’s leadership development programme
  • Westminster committee to discuss broadband
  • New Scottish Labour leader to take part in online meeting
Black and white photo of two men in front of striped, blurred backdrop: the man on the left wears a knit beanie and round glasses, while
  • Faroe and Shetland seminar
  • Energy advice drop-in event
  • Phantom of the Opera live score
  • Shetland was ‘amazing’, Whitehouse reflects
  • Land management consultation
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Aurora borealis lighting up the night sky over a silhouette of a building and a body of water.
  • Mirrie dancers put on a show
  • Sullom Voe framework events
  • Consultation on Skeld and Burravoe schools
  • Real value of charitable trust drops
  • Government won’t call in Unst planning application
  • Mousa Broch included in HES campaign
A man in a dress shirt and waistcoat sits next to a woman in a mac, both looking towards the side.
  • Red Shoes Theatre returns with new play
  • Replacement parts needed at Scord quarry
  • Women’s enterprise award nominations
  • MSP says government plans don’t deliver ‘strong vision’
  • Living Lerwick looking for new management
A group of people cutting a purple ceremonial ribbon in front of a Shetland Animal Welfare sign.
  • More decommissioning footage
  • Animal welfare charity shop launches
  • Quarff hall future secured
  • Vessel raises eyebrows
  • Local link to fired armed forces newspaper editor
  • Business support for football coach highlighted
  • Swan receives immersion suit donations
A tall silver rocket with a black nose cone stands on a green-grey launch tower, held by open metal arms against a pale cloudy sky.
  • Rocket Factory Augsburg ready for hot fire test
  • LPA board appointments
  • Orthodox church ‘fast-growing’
  • New CLAN walking group
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Green DAF lorry with a grey Northwards curtain-sided trailer parked on a quayside, with the sea and a grassy headland behind it.
  • Northwards invests in insulated trailers
  • HyImpulse confident in SaxaVord launch this year
  • Ocean Kinetics offers new apprenticeship
  • Wildlife writer’s new book on sheep
A young woman in white overalls sits on a workbench in an art studio, next to an easel displaying her painting of an elderly person crafting.
  • Voe Show cancelled
  • Fine art students scoop prizes
  • Government encouraged to show ‘leadership’ on island flights
  • Changes to Unst recycling collection
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Aerial view of the navy and red vessel Pole Star moving through open water.
  • Lighthouse boat open days cancelled
  • Pigeons in town ahead of race
  • SSEN signs cable framework agreement
  • More dates for MenB vaccination programme
  • Carmichael’s US-Iran concern
  • Tailor of Inverness show to head north
  • Orthodox bishop to visit
Entrance to Baltasound Junior High School featuring a mosaic mural and a banner celebrating the school’s Play Pedagogy Award.
  • Positive inspection report
  • SWEAG future
  • Coastguard concern
  • Hyperbaric centre donation
  • New mileage tax relief
A woman stands in an art gallery beneath a wall sign that reads “Shetland Connections: RSA Artists 1826–2026,” with several framed landscape paintings visible on the wall behind her.
  • Museum exhibition for Shetland Connections
  • Clan simmer dim event
  • Species on the Edge workshops
  • Accessible event fortnight at library
  • Shetland businesses exhibit on national stage

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