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A FEMALE cyclist is in a serious condition in hospital in Aberdeen after she came off her tricycle on Lerwick’s Ladies Drive at around lunchtime on Monday.
Police closed parts of the road yesterday as the woman was taken to the Gilbert Bain Hospital.
She was later transferred to the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with serious injuries.
THE TORSHAVN lifeboat Rescue LÍV has made an appearance in Lerwick on its passage back to Faroe following a refit in Sweden.
Search and rescue operations in Torshavn have been covered during the 18-month refit period by the former RNLI Aith Lifeboat Snolda, which has been in the relief fleet in Iceland since leaving Shetland in 1998.
Members of the RNLI Lerwick lifeboat crew also got a look around the refitted Torshavn lifeboat, as pictured above.
Night Train to Odesa is one of six books in the running for the accolade. The winner will be announced in London next month.
Reacting to the news in a post on social media, the Shetland author said: “This is just mad. It’s such a brilliant prize – for writing, fiction or non-fiction, including poetry which ‘evokes a sense of place’.
“And that’s exactly what I wanted to do with Night Train – make you feel you were there with me, on that ferry-barge crossing the Danube at dawn, and down by the river in Kharkiv watching swifts and swallows dancing in the May haze.
“It’s incredibly gratifying to be one of six books shortlisted for this prize.”
The others are American Anthem by Kelly Michels, Clear by Carys Davies, No Small Thing by Orlaine McDonald, Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang and The Catchers by Xan Brooks.
NORTHERN Isles MP Alistair Carmichael has called on the UK government to recognise the State of Palestine following a visit by the Palestinian prime minister Mohamad Mustafa to the UK.
Speaking in his role as chair of the Britain-Palestine all-party parliamentary group, Carmichael questioned what barriers remain to full recognition of the state.
He added: “A two-state solution requires two states to exist. For as long as this is not the case there is a fundamental imbalance in recognition and in the ability of Palestinians to have standing on the international stage.
“Recognition of the State of Palestine is a precondition for a lasting peace. The government has committed to this – they should get on and do it.”
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