Council issues a statement in response to news about threatening mails received today by schools.
Council issues a statement in response to news about threatening mails received today by schools -
Shetland Islands Council said:
“ A number of national and local schools have received an email this morning, notifying them of a bomb threat. Police Scotland have now confirmed that these threats are being treated as a hoax, and the emails have been quarantined.
“The safety of everyone in our schools is our utmost priority. We are following Police Scotland advice that there is no need to evacuate schools based on the content of these emails.”
Police Scotland also issued a national press statement on this earlier today.