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![Levellers frontman Mark Chadwick in action at Clickimin last night. Photo: Dale Smith](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20140716_0125_A4_Final-240x140.jpg)
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![Eunice Henderson's group of young fiddlers will strut their stuff at the 60th Sidmouth Folk Week.](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/IMG_5814-240x140.jpg)
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![The Mareel auditorium was packed out for Eddi Reader's show on Tuesday night. Photo: Chris Brown](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/O7155933_14-07-15-240x140.jpg)
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![A puffin with a beakful of good-sized fish flies in to Fair Isle to feed its chicks. Photo David Parnaby](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140716_puffin_with_sandeels_Photo_David_Parnaby-240x140.jpg)
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![Catriona MacDonald will give a lecture on Tom Anderson's music as part of this year's Fiddle Frenzy.](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/For_Sat_9th_Aug_Catriona_MacDonald-240x140.jpg)
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![UWC Short Course project coordinator Undine Schmidt with Bethany Scott in Bobby's Bus Shelter at Baltasound.](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140715_undine_schmidt_and_bethany_scott_of_uwc-240x140.jpg)
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![Scalloway primary school is to be turned into a health centre for the village by next summer. Photo Shetnews](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140328_Scalloway_primary_school-240x140.jpg)
![The Gemini berthed at Dales Voe on Monday. Photo Ian Leask](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140714_gemini_accommodation_vessel_arrives-240x140.jpg)
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![BT are currently installing fast broadband in Lerwick and other areas of Shetland, with Quarff, Cunningsburgh and Sumburgh next on the list.](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1343206454_w670_h503-240x140.jpg)
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![CATS from Kirkwall has taken the Lerwick Garrison stage by storm this weekend. Here is Stephanie Julie Baird as Victoria (left) and Graham Macdonald as Growltiger being watched by Old Deuteronomy played by Dennis Gowland. Photo Chris Brown](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cats_3-240x140.jpg)
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![The relief Aith lifeboat 17-33 Beth Sell joined Thursday night's search for the missing woman while the main lifeboat is on refit. Photo Ian Leask](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Relief_Aith_lifeboat_17-33_Beth_Sell_Photo_Ian_Leask-240x140.jpg)
![Kids from Urafirth primary school getting excited about Grow Wild at Hillswick, here on a rainy day with some of the plants for the native garden. Photo HWS](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140612_grow_wild_kids_2-240x140.jpg)
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![Young film maker Jenny Brown (centre front), flanked by four other new members of Maddrim Media during an exchange with SKAMM in Edinburgh last month. To Jenny's left are Eve Christie and Logan Nicolson, and to her right are Joanne Tait and Freya Stout. behind her are five members of SKAMM. Photo Maddrim Media](/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140710_new_members_front_row-240x140.jpg)
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