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Three-year ban for drink driving
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![The Magellan cruise ship, the first of around 90 expected in Lerwick during 2018. Photo: Malcolm Younger/Millgaet Media.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Magellan_cruise_ship-240x140.jpg)
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![Lerwick Harbour’s Mair’s Pier provides additional berthing capacity for mid-sized cruise ships. Photo: Calum Toogood/Lerwick Port Authority.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Cruise__2-240x140.jpg)
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![Motorcycle and large good vehicles training and testing on the old Anderson High School car park is to cease by the end of this month. Photo: Shetland Motorbike Training](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180312_motorcycle_training-240x140.jpg)
![Women's Aid Shetland manager Laura Stronach: 'There is an awakening'. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180302_Laura_Stronach-240x140.jpg)
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![SMUHA guizer jarl Ian Bray enjoying the moment his galley goes up in flames on Friday evening. Photo: Garry Sandison](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180309_SMUHA_4-240x140.jpg)
![The Saab 340 suffered significant performance loss.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/151111_a_Saab_340-240x140.jpg)
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![The aftermath of removing the cement from the barrel.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180308_cement-240x140.jpg)
![Dante's singer-songwriter Sean McLaughlin and fiddle player Vicky Gray both grew up in Shetland, and they are heading north for this year's folk festival.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Dante_-_Album_Promo_Shot_1-240x140.jpg)
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![Lerwick Town Hall flying the #suffragette100 flag on Thursday to demonstrate Shetland Islands Council's support of International Women's Day. Photo: SIC](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/180308_IWD-240x140.jpg)
![Cecil Smith, who is standing down as SIC leader after around nine months. Photo: Shetland News.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/170518_Cecil_Smith-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland's seafood industry is calling on the Scottish government for the Northern Isles ferry contract to go out to tender rather than taken in-house. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/170827_Hildasay_arriving_at_Lk-240x140.jpg)
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