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Calls for greater care over NorthLink kennels
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![Integration joint board vice chairman councillor Allison Duncan.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170518_Allison_Duncan-240x140.jpg)
![MP Alistair Carmichael signing the brain tumour pledge earlier this week.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170712_Alistair_Carmichael_signs_the_brain_tumour_pledge-240x140.jpg)
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![Thirteen year old Loui-Bo Scott has launched an honesty box in Sand.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170711_sand_honesty-240x140.png)
![Cargo boat The Hildasay.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/160428_Hildasay-240x140.jpg)
![Seumas MacKay back at the Clickimin track following gold medal success in Gotland. Photo: Shetland News/Chris Cope.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/19820787_10154852581424716_1250065753_o-240x140.jpg)
![Flybe will go head to head with Loganair from 1 September - but is there room for two airlines?](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170707_flybe_1-240x140.jpg)
![Heavy Metal Buffet's Shetland Rock Festival in typically energetic form back in 2014. Photo: Chris Brown](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170707_HMB_CB-240x140.jpg)
![Shona Manson (left) and Lisa Ward (right) are among the four new faces on NHS Shetland's board. Photos: Shetland News](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170707_NHS-240x140.jpg)
![Shetland Islands Council’s adult services manager Clare Scott, councillor Allison "Flea" Duncan, Nick Brett from Richard Gibson Architects, Karl Bolt from DITT and project manager Colin Petrie. Photo: Chris Cope/Shetland News.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/team_outside_new_Eric_Gray-240x140.jpg)
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![Darren Leslie at the Hejdby clay shooting range earlier on Wednesday in the team skeet competition. Photo: Shetland Island Games Association](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/Screen_Shot_2017-06-28_at_21.06.44-240x140.png)
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![The Compass Rose arrived in Yell last weekend. Photo: Ivan Reid](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/170614_Compass_Rose-240x140.jpg)
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![Flybe will continue to have a presence at Sumburgh Airport after its franchise with Loganair finishes at the end of August.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/170606_flybe-240x140.jpg)
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![The Buchan Alpha has produced nearly 150 million barrels of oil in the last 36 years.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/170602_Buchan-240x140.jpg)
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![Five of the six candidates followed the BBC invitation for the hustings in the Shetland Museum and Archive. From left to right: BBC journalist Daniel Lawson; Stuart Hill, independent; Miriam Brett, SNP; Robina Barton, Labour; Alistair Carmichael, Lib Dems; and Jamie Halco Johnston, Tories. All photos Chris Cope/Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/170530_BBC_hustings-240x140.jpg)
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