chief executive of the Shetland Islands Council, is at present heavily involved in negotiating a number of closer business links between Shetland and Faroe. These include mainly transport improvements [...] Northern North Sea, Shetland is the envy of every local authority in Scotland and beyond. With an unemployment rate close to 1%, the islands? economy is continuously on the verge of overheating. The islands [...] outwith Shetland, ? funding Shetland Amenity Trust, an organisation that restores old buildings, employs the county?s archaeologist and is engaged in the reforestration of the bleak bog covered hills.