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Island life good for kids

31 August 2015

Cabinet secretary for education Angela Constance unveiling the foundation school for the new Anderson High School - Photos: Hans J Marter/ShetNews

Constance unveils new school’s foundation stone

27 August 2015

Cabinet secretary for education Angela Constance - Photo: Scottish Government

Summit to call for fairer education funding

26 August 2015

Council leader Gary Robinson

Robinson – ‘Shetland is not an affluent place’

25 August 2015

Anett Gyenge - 'a little better every day'.

Appeal to help Hungarian couple

24 August 2015

Housing minister Margaret Burgess during a visit to Shetland two years ago - Photo: ShetNews

New task force to tackle fuel poverty

19 August 2015

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Access has been restricted as Toft pier has been described as being very close to the end of its working life - Photo: Courtesy of SIC

New Toft pier a step closer

19 August 2015

Shetland Gas Plant is 99 per cent complete according to the company - Photo: Courtesy Total UK

SIC expects no gas plant income this year

18 August 2015

The island of Grunay - yours for £85,000 - Photos; courtesy of KnightFrank

Community hopes for investor to buy Grunay

17 August 2015

SNP selects Skene to fight Holyrood election

17 August 2015

SIOC chief executive Mark Boden

SIC says new Anderson High “a good deal”

10 August 2015

An aerial view of the Guardian Angell sailing into Lerwick harbour - Photo: Paul Riddell

Delight as new Guardian Angell arrives

5 August 2015

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Sheriff accepts security firm’s apology

5 August 2015

FAI hears of tragic death of popular farmer

3 August 2015

Contracts signed, let work commence. The management team, from left: Hub North Scotland chief executive Angus MacFarlane, SIC children's services director Helen Budge, SIC leader Gary Robinson, SIC education and families chair Vaila Wishart, project manager Trevor Smith and SIC chief executive Mark Boden. Photo Shetnews

All systems go for new Anderson High

30 July 2015

Nick Ray arriving at Uyea beach in the northwest corner of Northmavine on Saturday afternoon - Photo and video: Courtesy of Billy Fox.

Sea kayaker raising funds for lifeboats

27 July 2015

Voe Show cancelled

24 July 2015

Court round up

20 July 2015

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Fishers fight “anti-fishing propaganda war”

16 July 2015

In the wake of Shackleton

6 July 2015

Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News

Island move to protect fishing communities

30 June 2015

Leon Johnson, Matthew Cox and Bobby Bristow celebrating their silver medal in the team's half marathon - Photo: Maurice Staples

First silverware for Team Shetland

28 June 2015

•2015 NatWest Island Games

The rowing team arriving at the Lerwick marina on Friday - Photo: Disability Shetland

Disability charity’s survival in the balance

26 June 2015

Serenity in full sail reaching the line at Lerwick on Thursday evening - Photo: John Anderson

North Sea racers arrive in Lerwick

26 June 2015

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Cocaine and cannabis

25 June 2015

Too drunk to stand trial

25 June 2015

Fined for using ‘N’ word

25 June 2015

Julie Odie pictured with JBT's Tony Monaghan and the parcels bound for Moldova.

Aid for Moldova orphans

23 June 2015

They want total control

9 June 2015

The signing of the memorandum of understanding between Vattenfall, Shetland Islands Council and Shetland Charitable Trust in November 2011.. From Left to right : Katrina Wiseman HIE, Veijo Huusko Vattenfall, Bill Manson, the chairman of SCT; and Alistair Cooper, SIC - Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media/HIE

The official end of Aegir

9 June 2015

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Using gill nets is not the most selective way of fishing - Photo: SFA

Local boats forced off fishing grounds

8 June 2015

Isles liberals pay tribute to Charles Kennedy

2 June 2015

the Rev Tom Macintyre - Photo: SCT

New SCT appointment

1 June 2015

Protesters gather at Lerwick's Market Cross on Saturday - Photos: ShetNews

Protesters call for election re-run

30 May 2015

Long distance walker Arjen Ulrich In Hamnavoe this week - Photo: ShetNews

Heading to America the hard way

30 May 2015

The Burradale wind farm, outside lerwick - Photo: ShetNews

Subsidy fear for new wind farms

29 May 2015

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Closet SNP fan

25 May 2015

Urgent action is needed to address the shortage of retained fire fighters in Shetland - Photo: Austin Taylor

Scott urges fire service to act on recruitment

21 May 2015

Broadband for all

17 May 2015

Villagers with nowhere to live anymore crowd the helicopter - all photos: Dougie Gray

Pilot Gray recalls harrowing time in Nepal

13 May 2015

HIE chairman Lorne Crerar and local area manager Rachel Hunter in Lerwick on Wednesday - Photo: Hans J Marter

Broadband slow due to huge demand

13 May 2015

The extent of the problem on the old Scalloway road - Photos: SIC

Dinsdale: ‘…it’s absolutely disgusting!’

12 May 2015

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Grieg Seafood confident despite struggle

11 May 2015

Shetland Catch stand at the 2015 Seafood Expo in Brussels - all photos: Shetland Catch

Shetland Catch focusing on Far East

6 May 2015

Carmichael correct on NHS

30 April 2015

Leigha Williamson

Police anxious to trace Leigha Williamson

29 April 2015

College merger comes one step closer

27 April 2015

Bernadette Barry of Peel energy: 'made very welcome in Yell' - Photo: Hans J Marter/ShetNews

Yell folk welcome wind farm plans

23 April 2015

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