Shetland has enjoyed its sunniest June since records began, with more than 240 hours of sunshine. This tops the previous record of 236 hours set 50 years ago in 1959.

There was joy of the sweetest kind for archer Billy Finnie as he won gold in the single men’s compound event at the Island Games in Åland on Tuesday afternoon, while team mate Sara Leith picked up a bronze in the corresponding women’s event, helping to secure a team bronze medal as well to more than double Team Shetland’s medal tally to date.

Shetland Islands Council is optimistic it will conclude the urgent independent review of the proposed new Anderson High School on time and for less than £100,000. A public meeting is also to be held next month to hear more of the concerns voiced about the £49 million school.

Shetland’s footballers went down to a humiliating 3-1 defeat against Greenland on Tuesday afternoon at the Island Games in Åland. Leighton Flaws scored the only goal for the isles side against a team that had until then been the whipping boys of Group A, shipping 10 goals in their first two matches.

The SIC has spent nearly £7 million on consultants to carry out a variety of different tasks in the last two years, members will be told at Wednesday’s Full Council meeting.

Shetland Charitable Trust may push ahead with cutting the Christmas bonus this week after a proposal to keep offering it to all islanders over-70 turned out to be very expensive.

Shetland’s footballers’ hopes of medal glory at the 2009 Island Games came to an end at Hammarvallen on Monday evening when despite a battling performance they slipped to a 2-1 defeat to the host island Åland.

Shetland’s second bronze medal on Monday arrived thanks to swimmer Andrea Strachan, who finished third in the 50m breaststroke, adding to the medal won by the isles’ shooters in the team skeet event earlier in the day.

Team Shetland has its first medal of the 2009 Island Games in Åland thanks to the steady hands and eagle eyes of shooters John Magnus Laurenson and Bryan Sutherland, who won a bronze medal in the team skeet event on Monday afternoon.

The sunny and warm weather brought the crowds out at the weekend for Shetland’s food extravaganza on the pier, the midsummer carnival and the start of the third leg of the Shetland to Bergen yacht race.