![Scottish Green MSP John Finnie](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/John_Finnie_2-240x140.jpg)
Green candidate visit
![Scottish Green MSP John Finnie](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/John_Finnie_2-240x140.jpg)
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![A grass fire in Sandness threatened nearby overhead power lines. Photo Michael Mann](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/1917681_246547235683438_4611023368493123331_n-240x140.jpg)
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![Sound Service Station has been taken over by J&G Shetland. Photo: Shetnews/Neil Riddell](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSC_2697-240x140.jpg)
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![Bambino & Beyond's Jenny Teale.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/jenny4-240x140.jpg)
![A piece of work by Anna Clark that formed part of Orkney College UHI's 2015 degree show.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Photo1-240x140.jpg)
![Finnish seven-piece Tsuumi Sound System are a late addition to this year's folk festival.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Tsuumi_Sound_System-240x140.jpg)
![Businessman Henry MacColl (right) is looking forward to getting on and building his pizzeria. He is pictured outside Lerwick Town Hall with his wife Denise and son Joshua. Photo: Shetnews/Hans J. Marter](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_0106-240x140.jpg)
![Outgoing SIC deputy leader Billy Fox.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/billy_fox-240x140.jpg)
![Samaritans branch chairwoman Edith Leask pictured with the two visiting inspectors Maggie Mehta and Monica Wyatt.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSCF0441_1-240x140.jpg)
![The Super Puma helicopter which ditched into the sea with tragic consequences in August 2013.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/130824_ditched_helicopter3-240x140.jpg)
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![Social worker of the year nominee Elinor Thompson, who works for the SIC.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Social_Worker_OTY_nominee_2016_-_Elinor_Thompson-240x140.jpg)
![Loganair's operations director Maurice Boyle.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/maurice_boyle-240x140.jpg)
![Streamline managing director Gareth Crichton.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/131125_Gareth_Crichton-240x140.jpg)
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![BP reported a gas leak at Sullom Voe oil terminal on saturday afternoon.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/140704_SVT-240x140.jpg)
![460 torch wielding guiders follow the SMUHA galley down to the Peerie Spiggie beach on Friday night for the burning. Photo Chris Brown](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cb_11-03-16_OMD18406-240x140.jpg)
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![SIC housing executive manager Anita Jamieson](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Housing_executive_manager_Anita_Jamieson-240x140.jpg)
![NorthLink ferries Hjaltland and Hrossey. Photo Will Rodger](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Hjaltland_and_Hrossey._Photo_Will_Rodger-240x140.jpg)
![The Lerwick ambulance crew with general manager Milne Weir outside the Lerwick station. From left: Laura Thomson, Angus Galbraith, Martin McDermott, Andy Fuller, Milne Weir, Robert Appleby, Malcolm Macleod, Peter Smith, Elizabeth Reid, Simon Parker](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160310_ambulance_crew-240x140.jpg)
![Sumburgh airport.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Sumburgh_airport-240x140.jpg)
![2016 Shetland Wool Week patron Ella Gordon. Photo: Jeni Reid.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Jeni_Reid_SWW15small_size___154-240x140.jpg)
![The Murchison platform when it was still producing oil. Photo CNR International](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/MURCHISON-02-240x140.jpg)
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![The Hjaltland, one of NorthLink's passenger ferries. Photo: Ian Leask](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/140220_new_look_hjaltland_Photo_Ian_Leask-240x140.jpg)
![On Tuesday night First Minister Nicola Sturgeon intervened in a crisis that has left rural affair minister Richard Lochhead's position in doubt. Photo: Shetnews](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/150303_nicola_sturgeon_musuem_summer_2014-240x140.jpg)
![Image courtesy of Nova Innovation.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/T1_Voe_Earl_copyright_1600x1239-240x140.jpg)
![BT's Robert Thorburn and HIE's director of digital Stuart Robertson were in Shetland at the weekend to give a progress update on the rollout of faster broadband in Shetland. Photo: HIE](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rsz_1rsz_screen_shot_2016-03-08_at_191619-240x140.jpg)
![Employee ownership expert Carole Leslie will host a two day event in the Lerwick Town Hall next week.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160309_Carole_Meaning-240x140.jpg)
![This year's Lerwick UHA Guizer Jarl Mark Evans. The Althing will ask "whether it's time gender equality reached Lerwick Up Helly Aa". Photo: Shetnews/Hans J. Marter](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160126_Mark_Evans-240x140.jpg)
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![A group of mostly Syrian refugees arriving in the Greek island of Lesvos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey. Photo: UNHCR](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rsz_screen_shot_2016-03-08_at_104133-240x140.jpg)
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![The SNP's Shetland candidate Danus Skene would like to see the party go further on reforming the council tax.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/150224_Danus_Skene_mugshot-240x140.jpg)
![An artist's illustration of Da Lightsome Buoy at Lerwick waterfront.](/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Da_Lightsome_Buoy_1-240x140.jpg)
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