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![Councillors meet in Lerwick Town Hall next Wednesday to debate the radical education proposals.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/LK_town_hall-240x140.jpg)
![Hopes were high when this delegation addressed chief treasury secretary Danny Alexander on the SIC housing debt last December. From left: Alistair Carmichael MP, SIC convener Malcolm Bell, SIC chief executive Mark Boden, SIC housing manager Anits Jamieson, SIC social services chairman Cecil Smith, vice chairman Allison Duncan and SIC leader Gary Robinson.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/121220_sic_housing_delegation-240x140.jpg)
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![Rocks being delivered to the contractors carrying out repairs to the Sumburgh runway extension at the end of September. Photo Ronnie Robertson](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/130930_sumburgh_runway_repairs_Photo_Ronnie_Robertson-240x140.jpg)
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![Two low loaders pass on the A970 coming too and from the Sumburgh airport runway extension. Photo Ronnie Robertson](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/131024_low_loader_with_rocks_2_Photo_Ronnie_Robertson-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland Nature wildlife tour guide Brydon Thomason took this photo of the Cape May Warbler on Wednesday afternoon.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/131023_Cape_May_Warbler_Photo_Bryson_Thomason-240x140.jpg)
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![Some Shetland Arts assets will have to be sold to pay for Mareel - Photo: Hans J Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/121019_mareel_from_hays_dock-240x140.jpg)
![Meridian Salmon lost an entire fish farm to the 100mph gales at Christmas 2011.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/salmon_cages_adrift-240x140.jpg)
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![Mind the gap. The council and bus operators remain a long way apart over the redesigned bus network. Photo ShetNews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130905_lerwick_bus_at_viking-240x140.jpg)
![An aerial view of the Shetland Gas Plant as it takes shape, with the two large peat stores clearly visible.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/130920_shetland_gas_plant_aerial_view-240x140.jpg)
![Interim infrastructure director Maggie Sandison](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Interim_infrastructure_director_Maggie_Sandison-240x140.jpg)
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![A Shetland convert. European regional aid commissioner Johannes Hahn wearing his Shetland flag lapel badge during last week's visit to the isles.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Johannes_Hahn_130902_small-240x140.jpg)
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![Designing an affordable bus service is taking longer than initially planned - Photo Hans Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bus_at_viking_Photo_Hans_Marter-240x140.jpg)
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