![First Minister Nicola Sturgeon posed for selfies with islanders travelling north on the ferry from Aberdeen on Sunday night. Photo courtesy of the SNP](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/rsz_screen_shot_2016-04-04_at_132406-240x140.jpg)
Call for new deal on ferries as Sturgeon visits
![First Minister Nicola Sturgeon posed for selfies with islanders travelling north on the ferry from Aberdeen on Sunday night. Photo courtesy of the SNP](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/rsz_screen_shot_2016-04-04_at_132406-240x140.jpg)
![Pictured after running in the Berlin half marathon on Sunday, from left to right: Stewart, Elaine, Shane and Haydn Jamieson.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/image3-240x140.jpg)
![CADSS' Lerwick premises, nestled behind the Faerdie Maet (Solotti's) cafe on Commercial Street. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSC_2724-240x140.jpg)
![Gideon Ward, one of the main men behind the Shetland Darts Masters event. Photo: Shetnews/Neil Riddell](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSC_2719-240x140.jpg)
![From left to right: Stewart Jamieson, Elaine Jamieson, Natalie Timberlake and Shane Jamieson. They'll be joined in Berlin by Haydn Jamieson, who is studying in Glasgow. Photo: Shetnews/Neil Riddell](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSC_2712_1-240x140.jpg)
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![The chairman of Shetland's Commission on Tackling Inequalities, Alastair Hamilton.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AlastairHamilton-240x140.jpg)
![Outgoing SIC deputy leader Billy Fox.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/billy_fox-240x140.jpg)
![The Super Puma helicopter which ditched into the sea with tragic consequences in August 2013.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/130824_ditched_helicopter3-240x140.jpg)
![Loganair's operations director Maurice Boyle.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/maurice_boyle-240x140.jpg)
![Streamline managing director Gareth Crichton.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/131125_Gareth_Crichton-240x140.jpg)
![On Tuesday night First Minister Nicola Sturgeon intervened in a crisis that has left rural affair minister Richard Lochhead's position in doubt. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/150303_nicola_sturgeon_musuem_summer_2014-240x140.jpg)
![BT's Robert Thorburn and HIE's director of digital Stuart Robertson were in Shetland at the weekend to give a progress update on the rollout of faster broadband in Shetland. Photo: HIE](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/rsz_1rsz_screen_shot_2016-03-08_at_191619-240x140.jpg)
![The SNP's Shetland candidate Danus Skene would like to see the party go further on reforming the council tax.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/150224_Danus_Skene_mugshot-240x140.jpg)
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![Flights in and out of Scatsta Airport are down 47 per cent since the autumn. Photo: Shetnews/Hans J. Marter](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Scatsta_Airport-240x140.jpg)
![NHS Shetland chairman Ian Kinniburgh.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/150929_Ian_Kinniburgh-240x140.jpg)
![Young Matthew pancake fundraiser enabled him to buy food to donate to the local Salvation Army collection.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_9569_1-240x140.jpg)
![Iain Souter of Victim Support Shetland](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/160225_Iain_Souter-240x140.jpg)
![SIC leader Gary Robinson was irritated at what he saw as disregard of procedures from other councillors.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/130220_gary_robinson_small_by_millgaet_copy-240x140.jpg)
![The board of the NAFC Marine Centre continue to harbour reservations about the planned merger with Shetland College.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/131030_NAFC_Marine_Centre-240x140.jpg)
![From left to right: SNP local government minister Marco Biagi, Orkney council leader Steven Heddle, SNP transport and islands minister Derek Mackay, Western Isles leader Angus Campbell and SIC leader Gary Robinson. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0914-240x140.jpg)
![Scottish transport and islands minister Derek Mackay, flanked by fellow SNP minister Marco Biagi and SIC political leader Gary Robinson at Lystina House on Monday. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_0909-240x140.jpg)
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![NHS Shetland director of public health Sarah Taylor.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/SarahTaylor-240x140.jpg)
![Photographer and lifeboat volunteer Ian Leask who has died at the weekend - Photo: Scott Goudie](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/160215_Ian_leask-240x140.jpg)
![The new Eric Gray Centre is on course to be completed by the end of 2017 - Photomontage: Richard Gibson Architects](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/150130_eric_gray_centre_plans_1-240x140.jpg)
![SIC leader Gary Robinson: funding settlement "hugely disappointing", but penalties "far outweigh any political gain there might be in having a spat with the Scottish Government over this".](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/1309_2-240x140.jpg)
![Fishermen in Shetland are being warned of the dangers of posed by Total's gas pipelines in Yell Sound. Photo: Shetnews/Hans J. Marter](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hans_pic_pipeline_laying-240x140.jpg)
![Labour's Shetland candidate Robina Barton.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/150920_Robina_Barton-240x140.png)
![Northern Isles MP Alistair Carmichael during last year's Channel 4 News interview.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/150405_alistair_carmichael_lying_on_channel_four-240x140.png)
![Johnny Lynch (aka Pictish Trail), James Yorkston and Dan Willson (aka Withered Hand) offered much jocularity at Mareel on Wednesday night.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/DSC_2617-240x140.jpg)
![Rich Hall, right, joined by guitarist Rob Childs at Mareel on Tuesday night. Photo: Davie Gardner](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/rich_hall_1-240x140.jpg)
![Agriculture minister Richard Lochhead, pictured on a visit to Shetland, is under further pressure over delays to payments for crofters and farmers.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/150130_richard_lochhead_in_shetland-240x140.jpg)
![Loganair chief executive Stewart Adams is standing down for "personal reasons".](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/130115Stewart_Adams_Loganair-240x140.jpg)
![From left to right: Withered Hand, The Pictish Trail and James Yorkston.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/rsz_1rsz_1057jannicahoney_foto-240x140.jpg)
![Fears continue to mount over the future of North Sea jobs as the oil price continues to fall.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/nexens_buzzard_platform-240x140.jpg)
![Loganair is putting fares up by 1.3 per cent following a year in which reliability of its services plummeted.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/loganair_saab_2000-240x140.jpg)
![rory gillies sandwick](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/rory_gillies_sandwick-240x140.jpg)
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![North Sea Commission marine resources group chairman Anders Fasth from Sweden (centre) and adviser Camilla Stavnes from Norway (left) with local councillors Drew Ratter (second from left) and Jonathan Wills (right) and NAFC director Willie Shannon (fourth from left). Photo courtesy of Shetland Islands Council.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/DSCF8197_sml-240x140.jpg)
![Architect Gareth Hoskins, who designed Mareel, has passed away.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/gareth_hoskins-240x140.jpg)
![Loganair has posted an increase in profits amid a tumble in the reliability of its service.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/loganair_saab_2000-240x140.jpg)
![Emergency services greet the Loganair aircraft on the runway at Sumburgh on Wednesday night. Photo: Ronnie Robertson](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151223_Full_emergency-240x140.jpg)
![HNP Engineering's premises. Photo: Chris Cope/Shetnews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151216_HNP_Engineers-240x140.jpg)
![The Solan is off to Italy, with its sister vessel Bonxie set to follow suit in the new year - Photo: John Bateson](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151221_Solan_and_others-240x140.jpg)
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