![Lerwick harbour was busy on Friday with yachts participating in the Shetland Race as well as the 293 metre cruise liner Costa Mediterranea visiting. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180629_Yachts1-240x140.jpg)
Yachts arrive in Lerwick
![Lerwick harbour was busy on Friday with yachts participating in the Shetland Race as well as the 293 metre cruise liner Costa Mediterranea visiting. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180629_Yachts1-240x140.jpg)
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![Charlie Gibson was last seen on Wednesday evening.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180629_NorthLink-240x140.jpg)
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![Loganair managing director Jonathan Hinkles (front) said it had been a "challenging" year.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Loganair_tartan_1_1-240x140.jpg)
![Robbie McGregor (right) with P6 junior road safety officers accompanied by roads executive manager Dave Coupe and Elaine Skinley. Photo: SIC](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JRSO_presentations_2018-240x140.jpg)
![Paul Wheelhouse has taken on the new minister for energy, connectivity and the islands post.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/paul_wheelhouse-240x140.jpg)
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![Coo Van in Shetland](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Coo_Van_in_Shetland-240x140.jpg)
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![Mareel. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/121019_mareel_from_hays_dock-240x140.jpg)
![From back left to right: Bell's Brae eco committee teacher Sophie Thouless, Lerwick Port Authority HSEQ assistant Amy Inkster and Stuart Wadley, Shetland Amenity Trust woodlands foreman Paul Goddard with Bell's Brae P2-P7 school pupils. Photo: John Coutts](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/N64A9377-240x140.jpg)
![Mark Berry captured this striking image of a winching exercise which took place during the Lerwick lifeboat open day on 16 June.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180625_lifeboat_open_day_MarkBerry-240x140.jpg)
![Some of the Big Takeover team (left to right): Stuart Edwards, Stewart Hornal, Jordan Clark, Peter Tomlinson, Sonny Smith.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/The_Big_Takeover-240x140.jpg)
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![Ivan Reid captured this image of the yacht being towed in.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180625_IvanReid-240x140.jpg)
![Shetland Gas Plant.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/150729_Shetland_Gas_Plant-240x140.jpg)
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![Left to right: Simon Collins, Ian Gatt, Andrew McCornick and NFU Scotland chief executive Scott Walker at the Royal Highland Show on Thursday.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/40I6148-240x140.jpg)
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![An award winning photo of an otter with a puffin in its mouth by Richard Shucksmith.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/dn26128-1_600-240x140.jpg)
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![The Sumburgh Airport car park. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/141017_airport_carpark1-240x140.jpg)
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![Douglas Kerr.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen_Shot_2018-06-20_at_11.46.01-240x140.png)
![The winning pupils from Mid Yell Junior School receive their prizes from Thomas Chaurin, education attaché of the French embassy in the UK, and Jenny Wink, Shetland Gas Plant facilities management co-ordinator.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180620-240x140.jpg)
![Baltasound in Unst. Photo: John Coutts/HIE](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180620_BaltasoundHIE-240x140.jpg)
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![Classics like You're The One That I Want and Greased Lightnin' will get an airing at the school.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Screen_Shot_2018-06-18_at_08.23.55-240x140.png)
![John Anderson.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180615_JohnAnderson-240x140.png)
![Aimee and Kirsty Budge (centre) flanked by Countryfile's Adam Henson and Charlotte Smith and family. Photo: BBC's The Food Programme Twitter.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/180614_Budge-240x140.png)
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