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![The Buchan Alpha oil installation was towed into Dales Voe on Saturday as owners Repsol Sinopec handed over the 12,000 tonne vessel to Veolia for decommissioning. It could take up to three weeks before the Buchan Alpha is being moved alongside the new quay. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170812_Buchan_Alpha_in_Dales_Voe_copy-240x140.jpg)
![Thursday's meeting will be held at the marts at Staneyhill. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170405_Lerwick_mart-240x140.jpg)
![NFU vice president Gary Mitchell at the Cunningsburgh Show on Wednesday. Photo: Shetland News/Chris Cope.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Gary_Mitchell_NFU-240x140.jpg)
![With work progressing on the stonework at Lerwick Town Hall, the refurbished clock tower is now visible again. Photo: Shetland News/Hans J. Marter.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170808_LK_town_hall-240x140.jpg)
![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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![Joanne Tait from Sandwick is off to Glasgow after the summer having achieved three advanced higher As in her exams. Photo: Shetland News/Neil Riddell.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/DSC_1104-240x140.jpg)
![Highlands and Islands MSP Maree Todd: some industries are 'in denial' about Brexit's potential pitfalls. Photo: Neil Riddell/Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170808_Maree_todd_MSP-240x140.jpg)
![Seamus Mackay donning a Scotland vest to win gold.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/seamus_mackay_scotland_team-240x140.jpg)
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![Veronica McBurnie leading participants in the "Big Sing" fundraiser at Da Big Kirk on Sunday night. Photo: Dale Smith.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/MG_5999_A4_Final-240x140.jpg)
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![Plans to build a new fish market next to Mair's Pier has received a European funding boost. Photo: LPA](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170529_Mairs_Quay-240x140.jpg)
![Arnold Mouat was last seen in early July.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/arnold_2-240x140.jpg)
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![Tavish Scott MSP: 'This obsession with centralisation shows no signs of slowing down'. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/160324_Tavish_2-240x140.jpg)
![Cattle being sold at Lerwick mart. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170405_Lerwick_mart-240x140.jpg)
![Lynn Johnson at her cake fridge earlier this year. Photo: Hans J Marter/Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170804_Lynn_Johnson-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland sheep is one of the breeds that could be marketed as islands meat. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170803_Shetland_sheep-240x140.jpg)
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![Disability Shetland team leader Stephanie Bain: 'community support has helped our bid'. Photo: Shetland News](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/170505_Stephanie_Bain-240x140.jpg)
![Veronica McBurnie (left) with some of the other singers who took part in a previous Shetland event.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/shetland_singers-240x140.jpg)
![Marvin Smith of Shetland Telecom: "really somebody somewhere has to come up with a solution to get this done, and the only way it’s going to be done is to throw proper money at it."](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/marvin_smith-240x140.jpg)
![The finished graffiti mural.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/P1030635-240x140.jpg)
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![Long hours of blue skies were the order of the day in Shetland for much of July. Photo: Gordon Siegel.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/sunny_calm_day-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland comedian Marjolein Robertson is about to begin a three-week stint at the Free Fringe in Edinburgh. Photo: John Carolan](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Marjolein_Robertson_Standing_on_a_waa_Photo_by_John_Carolan-240x140.jpg)
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![The new traffic measures start at Church Road and carry on to the Viking Bus Station. Photo: Shetland News.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_4129-240x140.jpg)
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![Abby Hayward.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Abby_2-240x140.jpg)
![While there has been a dip in the first half of 2017, the port expects to set new records for activity come September. Photo: Shetland News/Neil Riddell.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/IMG_3859-240x140.jpg)
![A busy Mair's Pier earlier this summer. Photo: LPA](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/170529_Mairs_Quay-240x140.jpg)
![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)
![NHS Shetland chief executive Ralph Roberts.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Ralph_Roberts_NHS_Shetland_copy-240x140.jpg)
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