The Hildasay and Hrossey at Holmsgarth on Monday. Photo: Ian Leask. Click on photo to enlarge.

Shetlanders got their first sight of the new NorthLink cargo boat on Monday when the Hildasay arrived in Lerwick.

The vessel will be renamed on Wednesday by 12-year-old Sophie Wishart, who won a competition by suggesting the name. She is to receive a prize of four return trips with cabin for two and car, or equivalent, on one of NorthLink’s passenger ships.

Lerwick police have reported a quiet weekend apart from four minor incidents.

In the early hours of Saturday, a man was assaulted a nightclub in the town centre and sustained minor injuries. Police said inquiries were ongoing and it was expected that a report would be sent to the procurator fiscal.

Inquiries are continuing into an incident where a Flybe flight from Sumburgh to Inverness was diverted to Wick last Thursday.

The aircraft, with 13 passengers and three crewmembers on board, made an emergency landing after smoke appeared in the cabin and cockpit.

Flight number 6910 was on the second leg of its journey between Kirkwall and Inverness when crew noticed the smoke shortly after 9am.

It was reported last week that close to £200,000 worth of Class A drugs had been seized by police in Shetland during 2008/2009. This was primarily heroin.

There are a number of ways we can think about this figure. For Shetland, it shows a continuing increase in heroin use, which is severely worrying. But for the police it will be seen as something of a success – proof that current methods are having some impact.

Davy Cooper argues that the visual arts should be better recognised in Shetland for their role in driving social and economic progress.

I’ve wandered the edges of the visual arts community in Shetland for many years. I’ve been a journeyman illustrator, photographer and art instructor, in fact a jack of all trades and master of none. I’ve never been a true artist and never desired to be, but I do have an appreciation of the visual arts and the role which they can and, I believe, should play in our society.