In this week’s Shetland Times

Read in depth coverage in today’s (Friday 17th December) edition of The Shetland Times, including the latest on escalating Covid-19 concerns:

• Omicron is detected.

• 5,000 jabs by Christmas.

• Youth clubs close, tighter restrictions return to schools, and Bressay ferry disruption.

• Businesses brace for another setback.

And in other news:

• A new £125m hospital could be built within the next five years.

• Hial reports a severe decline in flight and passenger numbers at Sumburgh Airport.

• Author Ann Cleeves opens new library.

• An ambitious project to photograph every gravestone in Shetland gets underway.

• SPORT: Swimmers set personal bests.

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