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Time to back your country
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![Shetland boat Spindrift flies the Brexit flag. Photo Ivan Reid](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/spindrift_fishing_for_leave-240x140.jpg)
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![First minister Nicola Sturgeon responded positively to Shetland MSP tavish Scott's request to step in to the HNP row.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Screenshot_2016-06-03_19.56.32-240x140.png)
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![Peace campaigner Andrew Greig setting off on his 1,100 mile journey in northern Unst on Thursday.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/image1_copy_2-240x140.jpg)
![Lessons have been learned from the embarrassing history of Shetland's two new tugs, now sold to the port of Naples.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/IMG_0195-240x140.jpg)
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![Peter Mackenzie holds up the award he and his wife Caroline won on Sunday night.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Cg1t786WgAU0Uwn.jpg-large_copy-240x140.jpg)
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![Mandie Fulbirg outside the building site surrounding her house on Stucco in Hillswick. Photo Shetnews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/IMG_1027_copy-240x140.jpg)
![The SIC has made £70,000 on the sale of Solan and Bonxie.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Solan_and_bonxie-240x140.jpg)
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![Rural affairs secretary Richard Lochhead (right) with local SNP candidate Danus Skene and Shetland abattoir manager Lauraine Manson.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/160331_at_the_abattoir_with_richard_lochhead_and_manager_lauraine_manson-240x140.jpg)
![The collapse in the oil price is forcing the oil industry to reassess its priorities, including the gas sweetening plant at Sullom Voe.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/SVT_aerial_from_NW_Photo_BP-240x140.jpg)
![Black smoke pouring out of the new Shetland Gas Plant's flare stack will stop soon according to operator Total.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160325_smoky_flare_stack-240x140.jpg)
![Guizer jarl Grant Smith with the two junior squad members James Nicolson (left) and Kane Paul (right). Photo: Desley Stickle](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/607-240x140.jpg)
![Delting guizer jarl Christopher Nicolson at the helm of his galley Stor Sjo. Photo Hans J Marter/Shetnews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160318_Guizer_jarl_Christopher_Nicolson-240x140.jpg)
![460 torch wielding guiders follow the SMUHA galley down to the Peerie Spiggie beach on Friday night for the burning. Photo Chris Brown](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/cb_11-03-16_OMD18406-240x140.jpg)
![SIC housing executive manager Anita Jamieson](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Housing_executive_manager_Anita_Jamieson-240x140.jpg)
![The Lerwick ambulance crew with general manager Milne Weir outside the Lerwick station. From left: Laura Thomson, Angus Galbraith, Martin McDermott, Andy Fuller, Milne Weir, Robert Appleby, Malcolm Macleod, Peter Smith, Elizabeth Reid, Simon Parker](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160310_ambulance_crew-240x140.jpg)
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![Tavish Scott addresses the Scottish Liberal Democrat party conference in Edinburgh on Friday.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/160226_addressing_party_conference-240x140.jpg)
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![Cullivoe guizer jarl John Saunders (aka Harald Finehair) with his two princesses, niece Bernadette (left) and granddaughter Jolie.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/160225_cullivoe_jarl-240x140.jpg)
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![A family affair. Guider Jarl James Titcomb (Thorir Hund) with his father Peter, daughter Eloise and son Darryl on a sunnier day earlier in the week preparing for the big day. Photo Gordon Stove](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/160217_guizer_jarl_and_family-240x140.jpg)
![Uyeasound Guizer Jarl Gunnlaug Wirmtongue (Christopher Ritch) with his son Finn and daughter Merrin](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/IMG_3353-1-240x140.jpg)
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![Nesting and Girlsta Jarl Mark Gifford on his galley Sneckan reviving the red and white colours from his grandfather Charlie Anderson's day. Photo Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Jarl_Mark_Gifford_on_Sneckan_Photo_Malcolm_YoungerMillgaet_Media-240x140.jpg)
![Community health and social care director Simon Bokor-Ingram has until the end of this month to find £1.8m savings to his budget.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/131211_Simon_Bokor-Ingram_mugshot-240x140.jpg)
![Chairman Bobby Hunter spelled out that SLAP Had the full backing of Shetland Charitable Trust over the HNP affair.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Hunter_small-240x140.jpg)
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![Enjoying every minute, Jarl Haakon Haraldsson leads his squad of Vikings through the streets of Scalloway on a cold but clear Friday morning. All photos Garry Sandison](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/005aa0032-240x140.jpg)
![HNP Engineers managing director Ian Walterson is heartened by the support he has received in the community as he prepares to battle the threat of eviction from the Commercial Road site he leases from SLAP. Photo Hans J Marter/Shetnews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151218_ian_walterson_of_hnp_engineers-240x140.jpg)
![The fresh-faced Courageous, formerly Guardian Angell, and her young crew who joined the Shetland whitefish fleet this year. Photo Ivan Reid](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/150402_courageous_and_crew_Photo_Ivan_Reid-240x140.jpg)
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