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🎼Clear your diaries because they're back this Friday night!Father and daughter and duo Arnold and Laurie Goodlad will be...
04/09/2024

🎼Clear your diaries because they're back this Friday night!

Father and daughter and duo Arnold and Laurie Goodlad will be in the studio for this week's Give Us A Tune, and they're looking for your requests.

☎️💻Dedications and messages can be sent in to us on '01595 694 747', by emailing '[email protected]' or message us on Facebook.

📻📲Tune in after the news at 6pm on 92.7FM or on BBC Sounds👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shetland

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland: - SIC Political Leader Emma Macdonald calls for future energy developments to be, “s...
03/09/2024

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland:

- SIC Political Leader Emma Macdonald calls for future energy developments to be, “structured in a way that is fair for our community”

- A protest is held to mark the completion of the Viking Wind Farm

- Shetland Pride holds its first drag variety night

- And Shetland rockers Husfu release their debut single

Join us at 5.30pm on 92.7FM or on BBC Sounds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shetland

Click the link below to listen back to Tuesday's news update for Shetland
03/09/2024

Click the link below to listen back to Tuesday's news update for Shetland

The latest news for Shetland from the BBC.

☁️ Here is today's weather forecast for Shetland 🌥📸 Photo Credit: Brian Gray📌 Taken at the last weekend's Shetland Horse...
03/09/2024

☁️ Here is today's weather forecast for Shetland 🌥
📸 Photo Credit: Brian Gray
📌 Taken at the last weekend's Shetland Horse and Pony 2024 event taking place at the Bigton Farm

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland: - Councillors agree new guidelines for mothballing schools- We take a look back at a...
02/09/2024

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland:

- Councillors agree new guidelines for mothballing schools

- We take a look back at a sunny day for the Unst Show

- And we've a round-up of all the weekend's sport.

Join us at 5.30pm on 92.7FM or on BBC Sounds

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shetland

Click the link below to listen back to Monday's news update for Shetland
02/09/2024

Click the link below to listen back to Monday's news update for Shetland

The latest news for Shetland from the BBC.

☁️ Here is today's weather forecast for Shetland 🌥📸 Photo Credit: Jean Latham📌 Taken close to the main road from Ulsta t...
02/09/2024

☁️ Here is today's weather forecast for Shetland 🌥
📸 Photo Credit: Jean Latham
📌 Taken close to the main road from Ulsta to Mid Yell near Ness of Sound

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland🎙 - People who have lost a family members or friend to drug overdose are being encoura...
30/08/2024

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland🎙

- People who have lost a family members or friend to drug overdose are being encouraged to remember them in Lerwick tomorrow evening.

- The Compass Centre formally re-opens after storm damage.

- Nominations open for the 2024 Shetland Sports Awards.

- And the Original Cake Fridge goes up against Harrods in a national baking competition.

📻📱Join us at 5.30pm on 92.7FM or BBC Sounds👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shetland

Click the link below to listen again all the news across the isles in Good Evening Shetland including an extended interv...
29/08/2024

Click the link below to listen again all the news across the isles in Good Evening Shetland including an extended interview with SSE's Chief Executive Alistair Phillip-Davies.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0022cj0

On Good Evening Shetland; We speak in depth tonight to the SSE Chief Executive Alistair Phillips-Davies about plans to d...
29/08/2024

On Good Evening Shetland;

We speak in depth tonight to the SSE Chief Executive Alistair Phillips-Davies about plans to develop further projects in Shetland and on the calls for a so called Shetland Tariff.

What does today's decision by the UK Government not to fight the legal challenge to Rosebank field mean for the project.

More findings are to be shared about the Viking Genes study.

And what's in a name? We look at the new list of storm names.

📻📱Join us at 5.30pm on 92.7FM or BBC Sounds👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shetland

The UK government will not fight a legal challenge against the decision to grant consent to drill in untapped oil and ga...
29/08/2024

The UK government will not fight a legal challenge against the decision to grant consent to drill in untapped oil and gas fields off Shetland and Aberdeen.

Greenpeace and Uplift brought judicial reviews to stop the development of the Rosebank and Jackdaw fields.

Power is flowing from Shetland to mainland Britain for the first time as the UK's most productive onshore windfarm comes...
29/08/2024

Power is flowing from Shetland to mainland Britain for the first time as the UK's most productive onshore windfarm comes on stream.

But critics of windfarms – and the pylons required to carry the electricity they generate – say a new era of mass industrialisation for private profit will ruin swathes of the British countryside.

You can read more on the BBC News website👇

The islands are the windiest part of the UK, which means it will be rare for the turbines not to be spinning.

☁️ Here is today's weather forecast for Shetland 🌥📸 Photo Credit: Steve Birrell📌 Gordi Stack, Hillswick
29/08/2024

☁️ Here is today's weather forecast for Shetland 🌥
📸 Photo Credit: Steve Birrell
📌 Gordi Stack, Hillswick

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland🎙 - Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael says the case for a Shetland tariff is stren...
28/08/2024

On tonight's Good Evening Shetland🎙

- Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael says the case for a Shetland tariff is strengthened with payments made to keep the Viking wind farm idle.

- We hear about the challenges to recruit permanent NHS staff.

- Learn about an association of remote and rural surgeons coming to Lerwick next month.

- And isles rockers The Fiction tell us about their debut album.

📻📱Join us at 5.30pm on 92.7FM or BBC Sounds👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live:bbc_radio_shetland

🎧The latest news for Shetland is now available on BBC Sounds👇
28/08/2024

🎧The latest news for Shetland is now available on BBC Sounds👇

The latest news for Shetland from the BBC.

☁️ Here is the weather forecast for today 🌧📸 Photo Credit: Magnus Eunson Skaw📌 Skaw, Whalsay
28/08/2024

☁️ Here is the weather forecast for today 🌧
📸 Photo Credit: Magnus Eunson Skaw
📌 Skaw, Whalsay

28/08/2024

One of the meteorological phenomena typically occurring from April until September across islands and coastal areas, such as Shetland, is the haar (or sea fog) 🌫

Helen Perry captured it rolling over the Kame in Foula one summer evening.

🎙On Good Evening Shetland; - SSE is paid over £2 million pounds this month to keep the Viking Energy Wind Farm idle. We ...
27/08/2024

🎙On Good Evening Shetland;

- SSE is paid over £2 million pounds this month to keep the Viking Energy Wind Farm idle. We explain why.

- The Melby Pier in Sandness could be taken into community ownership.

- Charting the stages of grief and bereavement, we turn the pages on Christian Tait's new collection of poetry which is launched later this week.

- And knitters get ready for a toorie tree for Christmas!

📲📻Tune in on 92.7fm at 17:30 or listen live on BBC sounds: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/schedules/bbc_radio_shetland

☁️ The weather forecast is back with another stunning snap of Shetland's wildlife 🌤📸 Photo Credit: Brydon Thomason📌 Male...
27/08/2024

☁️ The weather forecast is back with another stunning snap of Shetland's wildlife 🌤
📸 Photo Credit: Brydon Thomason
📌 Male Merlin spotted at one of the breeding sites on the isles

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