THE man who stopped Shell dumping the Brent Spar slipped back into his Shetland lair last night, at the start of what looks like a summer of environmental campaigning around the islands.

Captain Jon Castle, of the campaign ship Greenpeace, docked at Greenhead oilfield supply base in Lerwick after a reconnaissance voyage to BP's new Foinaven production vessel 100 miles out in the Atlantic.

Capt Castle and his crew lave spent the past week at St Kilda, documenting wildlife in the area where oil companies are bidding for the 17th round of UK Government exploration licences.

Greenpeace also appears to be planning high-profile demonstrations against over-fishing in the North Sea, following the success of their protests against Danish fish-meal boats last year.

Rose Young, the Shetland resident who ran the Greenpeace office in Lerwick during the Brent Spar campaign in 1995, has returned from several months with Greenpeace in Amsterdam.