Fabiana Cacace

Jan 11, 2024 | news.stv.tv | Victoria Pease |Fabiana Cacace

An animal sanctuary has rescued ‘the smallest grey seal pup it has ever seen’ after it was found injured on a beach in Shetland. The pup was found by a dog walker climbing up a beach towards St Ninian’s Isle on Thursday morning. Scottish SPCA inspector Vhairi Graham attended the scene and found the half-moulted pup was covered in small wounds, thought to have been caused by birds pecking at the seal’s face, body and flippers.

Nov 13, 2023 | news.stv.tv | Fabiana Cacace

A skipper spotted a “huge” pod of killer whales swimming alongside a fishing boat off the coast of Shetland. James Duthie, who works on board Sunbeam FR487, filmed the ‘rare’ encounter on Friday. He told STV News: “We were fishing mackerel and the whales were swimming along us as we were going back to the east side of Shetland, not far from shore, where the fish were located.

Nov 5, 2023 | news.stv.tv | Fabiana Cacace |Gianni Marini

An air traffic controller has captured views across Glasgow from a plane window on Bonfire Night. Isabelle Grogg was flying into the city at around 8pm on Sunday night. Through the plane window she was treated to a stunning display of fireworks from across Glasgow as the cityscape lay below her. People across Glasgow let off fireworks in celebration on Bonfire Night including at the Fort. Elsewhere, however, police were called to deal with disorder.

Oct 25, 2023 | news.stv.tv | Fabiana Cacace |Gianni Marini

A pod of orcas has been spotted chasing a seal through a salmon farm in Shetland. A worker at the Scottish Sea Farms site in the Ness of Setter caught the moment on camera. The killer whales were pursuing the seal through the cages surfacing metres away from Sam Jamieson’s boat. The pod is thought to be the 27s, named after its matriarch in the Scottish Killer Whale ID Catalogue. Last year, a newborn orca calf was spotted travelling with its pod off the coast of Fraserburgh.

Sep 15, 2023 | news.stv.tv | Fabiana Cacace

A kayaker and his dog had a “once in a lifetime” encounter with a pod of basking sharks. Dave Halton and his Bedlington terrier Scout were enjoying a paddle two kilometres off the coast of Nairn when they came across a group of basking sharks feeding near their kayak. The 63-year-old former cameraman assistant said he is still “coming down from the experience”.