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![Enjoying the teas and home bakes are: (back row - left to right)) Hjaltland captain John Strathearn, hotel director Seamus Campbell, John Daly, purser; (front row - left to right): lifeboat mechanic Ian Harms, coxswain Bruce Leask, ladies' committee member Ann Marie Mullay, lifeboat crewman Ian Derbyshire, ladies' guild treasurer Rhoda Watt and lifeboat crewman Dieter Glaser - Photo: Jane Leask](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160319_RNLI_coffee_morning-240x140.jpg)
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![Altogether now. Education and families committee vice chairman George Smith, who also chairs the Shetland Sporting Partnership Strategic Group, sinks his spade into the Clickimin soil to mark the start of work on the new indoor pitch. Smith is flanked by (from left) Cllr Billy Fox, Cllr Vaila Wishart, site supervisor with contractor Collinson Ryan Davies, Cllr Peter Campbell, Shetland Recreational Trust general manager James Johnston, SRT technical services manager David Wagstaff, and Trevor Smith and Annie Nicolson from the Anderson High School project team.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/DSCF0388-240x140.jpg)
![Elinor Thompson (fourth from left) with a special award for Leadership in Social Work, presented at the Scottish Association of Social Work annual awards in Edinburgh on Tuesday evening. Elinor is the Team Leader for Children and Families Social Work Team with Shetland Islands Council, and is pictured here with colleagues (from left) Victoria Robertson, Martha Nicolson, Natalie Leask and Hannah Burgess.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Special_Award_-_Leadership_in_Social_Work_2016_-_Elinor_Thompson-240x140.jpg)
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