A man has been taken to the Gilbert Bain Hospital after suffering an accident on an oil rig.
The coastguard helicopter was called out to the rig, north-east of Sumburgh, on Saturday morning.
Coastguard teams arrived back at Tingwall around midday, when the patient was taken onwards to hospital by ambulance.
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