A new landmark has appeared at the Scord – an 80 foot high electricity producing windmill – the first of its kind in Britain.

Parliament is not formally back in business quite yet. But having not been near the Holyrood office for five weeks, the day dawned when it could not be postponed any longer.

The cost of living in rural Shetland is the highest in Scotland. But Lerwegians have a slightly better time of it. These were the two conclusions from this year’s Rural Scotland Price Survey published by Mackay Consultants for the Highlands and Islands Development Board.

For anyone who cares about Shet­land the Accounts Commission report into the events of the last year in the Town Hall could not make happy reading. Its contents will doubtless be well reported elsewhere in these pages so I do not intend to rehearse them here beyond saying that there was not much in it that has not already been predicted.

Bressay is having a lively debate. No, not fixed links. We will be pushing up daisies before that one re-emerges. No, not the splendid new lambing park that’s been created at the back of Fullaburn. That park is currently masquerading as a football field on which the might of the Bressay Parish Cup Team will strut their stuff.

Two fires in Sandveien in the past three months have been caused by faulty street light cable which runs through the lofts of some of the houses.

The House of Commons witnessed a small piece of history last week when Nick Clegg stood at the des­patch box in the chamber and ans­wered questions at Prime Minister’s Question Time.

Four Norwegians intent on re-living Viking times arrived in Lerwick harbour on Monday in their two small longships. They have almost completed a voyage round Britain without the aid of compasses or charts, radars, radios or any other modern equipment – just as the Vikings would have done.

Sullom Quarries are helping to lay a new pipeline in the North Sea which will eventually pump an extra 80,000 barrels of oil per day to the Sullom Voe Terminal.

Bell’s Brae Primary occasionally has a lot to answer for! Cameron came home from school one Friday late last year and decreed that he wanted to see the D-Day landing beaches in Normandy.