BBCNEWS BBC News June 4, 2024 22:48:00
The hope is these could all give a big boost to the local economies, and that's especially important here in unst. this island has suffered quite badly from depopulation over the last 20 or 30 years. there's a small airfield here, used to be the third busiest heliport in the uk, and then they also had an raf station here. when that left, it's about half the population of the island, and clearly that had a massive economic impact. so, you know, we're helping with the sort of rejuvenation of the island. we're hoping here, as we run it as a spaceport, we'll have more and more servicejobs, doing t...