Three councillors are complaining to Scotland’s finance minister John Swinney about the conduct of the Accounts Commission and what they see as its “collective defamation of our character, competence and integrity”.

I am always puzzled by Laughton Johnston’s letters about the windfarm, and the latest is especially perplexing. Three questions occur to me.

Heavy snow caused a series of accidents over the weekend although with no major fresh falls overnight all schools have reopened today.

Shetland Health Board members said goodbye to Sandra Laurenson on Friday afternoon when she retired from the post of chief executive after almost 10 years.

Kinetics moved three points clear in the first division of the netball leagues after an emphatic win last week over Wastside. Challengers were equally impressive in defeating Da McEwans in division two while in the third division Hotfooters secured the title with a close victory over Ness.

Just where on the planet does the chief executive of Shetland Islands Council think he is?

No matter how many times Sustainable Shetland repeats it, it is not true! There is absolutely no evidence that the “vast majority in Shetland” are against the windfarm. Initially, when emotions were high and there was no Windfarm Supporters Group to challenge Sustainable Shetland, there was an upsurge in opposition.

Iceland has come under renewed attack from Scottish fishermen and the government minister after announcing it is to increase its mackerel quota to 147,000 tonnes for next year.

I see that our ex-pat climate change deniers, John Coutts and John Tulloch, have recently been bombarding the local press with more of their rubbish. And in particular, they have been objecting to the label “deniers” which has been applied to them. Well, gentlemen, if you continue to deny reality, then that is exactly what you are going to be called.

The campaign to save Shetland’s coastguard station has already taken off, with more than 1,600 signing up to a Facebook protest page and more maritime groups and politicians joining in the condemnation of the Maritime and Coastguard Agency’s cost-cutting proposals.