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Malakoff completes ferry building contract
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![Co-curator Kathy Hubbard at the launch of the 2017 Screenplay film festival. Photo courtesy of Shetland Arts.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/KH_at_launch_LowRes-240x140.jpg)
![The owners of the Adenia Fishing Company have commissioned a replacement vessel, to be designed in Norway and built in Spain.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/adenia-240x140.jpg)
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![Sam Maver scored the first of Shetland's two goals on Saturday. Photo: Steven Johnson.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Milne_Cup_2017-3-240x140.jpg)
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![The Daroja leaving Shetland way back in November 2010. Photo: Ian Leask.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Daroja_Nov10-240x140.jpg)
![The Relay for Life in Shetland has raised over £1 million for Cancer Research UK.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/150923_Relay_For_Life-240x140.jpg)
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