![Steaming into an uncertain future: the Daroja leaving Lerwick - Photo: Ian Leask.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/131125_Daroja-240x140.jpg)
Subsidy loss puts cargo service in doubt
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![Dagalien - one of the two Yell ferries](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Dagalien-240x140.jpg)
![Disappointed parents David and Elisabeth McDowall - Photo: Hans J Marter](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/David__Elisabeth_McDowall-240x140.jpg)
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![Sarah Laurenson with her new book - Photos: Hans J Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/131007_Sarah_Laurenson-240x140.jpg)
![Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael MP - Photo: Hans J Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/130921_Alistair_Carmichael_2-240x140.jpg)
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![Wietse van der Werf in the galley of the Sea Shepherd ship Steve Irwin - Photo: Eric Cheng](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/In_the_galley_on_board_the_Sea_Shepherd_ship_Steve_Irwin_Oct_2008._Photo__by_Eric_Cheng-240x140.jpg)
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![Whisky entrepreneur Stuart Nickerson.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130924_Stuart_Nickerson-240x140.jpg)
![isles' MP Alistair Carmichael (left) and business secretary Vince Cable MP outside Shetland Museum and Archives on Saturday afternoon - Photo: Hans J Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130921_Carmichael_Cable-240x140.jpg)
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![The cinema and music venue Mareel was opened at the end of August 2012 - Photo: Hans J Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/121019_mareel_from_hays_dock-240x140.jpg)
![Investigators have so far found no evidence for a technical failure behind the accident that claimed four lives - Photo: Peter Hutchison/ShetNews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130824_ditched_helicopter3-240x140.jpg)
![The Super Puma L2 helicopter was broken up when hitting the rocky coastline at Garths Ness, the AAIB said - Photo: Peter Hutchison/ShetNews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/230824_ditched_helicopter2-240x140.jpg)
![The helicopter wreckage, covered by a white tarpaulin, arriving at Lerwick harbour](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Unknown-1-240x140.jpg)
![The council is still spending more than it earns, meaning more cuts lie ahead.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/LK_town_hall-240x140.jpg)
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![One casualty was taken on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance - Photo: Garry Sandison](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/131x0064-240x140.jpg)
![Staffing levels at coastguard stations are said to be at crisis point.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/a_coastguard_station-240x140.jpg)
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