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Professor’s claim that isles have ugly affordable housing rebutted by local industry
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![The Edinburgh Quartet returns to the isles this week. Photo: Jean Stoner](/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/171110_Edinburgh_Quartet__Jean_Stoner-240x140.jpg)
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![Pictured after another chilly training session at the Clickimin running track, from left to right: George Abernethy, personal trainer Russell Gair, Stuart Pearson, Grant Johnson, Karl Simpson, Fiona Shearer, Bryan Garrick, Lee Balfour, Marc Williamson, Ivor Johnson. Photo: Shetland News](/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/DSC_1148-240x140.jpg)
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![Looking through the minutes are (left to right): former Althing chairwoman Florence Grains, Shetland archivist Brian Smith and current Althing chairman Andrew Halcrow. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/171108_Florence_Grains_Brian_Smith__Andrew_Halcrow-240x140.jpg)
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![Checking out the site on Wednesday was Graham Kerr (J Duguid, QS), David Thomson (Trustee), Peter Johnson (PJP Architects), Karl Bolt (DITT Site Agent), James Johnston (General Manager, SRT), John Tait (Director, DITT), Sheila Tulloch (Shetland LEADER Programme), Bryan Leask (Chairman, SRT), Andrew Lyall (Head of Assets and Business Support, SRT), Leigh Smith (Technical Services Manager, SRT), George Anderson (Mott McDonald), Neville Martin (Vice Chairman, SRT), Trevor Smith (Project Manager, Anderson High School, SIC), Robert Geddes (CLC Manager). Photo: Paul Riddell](/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/171108_SRT-240x140.jpg)
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![Accepting the final set of resuscitation masks from Pheona Horne (left) and Tricia Brown (right) are (from left to right) SFRS local group manager Myles Murray, SFRS local senior officer Western Isles, Orkney and Shetland Fraser Burr, watch manager Andrew Hunter and Sophi Chapman.](/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/171107_Smokey_Paws_final_handover-240x140.jpg)
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