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Gender equality wins at Up Helly Aa debate
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![Delting guizer jarl Christopher Nicolson at the helm of his galley Stor Sjo. Photo Hans J Marter/Shetnews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160318_Guizer_jarl_Christopher_Nicolson-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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![Bambino & Beyond's Jenny Teale.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/jenny4-240x140.jpg)
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![Finnish seven-piece Tsuumi Sound System are a late addition to this year's folk festival.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Tsuumi_Sound_System-240x140.jpg)
![Businessman Henry MacColl (right) is looking forward to getting on and building his pizzeria. He is pictured outside Lerwick Town Hall with his wife Denise and son Joshua. Photo: Shetnews/Hans J. Marter](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/IMG_0106-240x140.jpg)
![Outgoing SIC deputy leader Billy Fox.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/billy_fox-240x140.jpg)
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![The Super Puma helicopter which ditched into the sea with tragic consequences in August 2013.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/130824_ditched_helicopter3-240x140.jpg)
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![Loganair's operations director Maurice Boyle.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/maurice_boyle-240x140.jpg)
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![The Lerwick ambulance crew with general manager Milne Weir outside the Lerwick station. From left: Laura Thomson, Angus Galbraith, Martin McDermott, Andy Fuller, Milne Weir, Robert Appleby, Malcolm Macleod, Peter Smith, Elizabeth Reid, Simon Parker](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/160310_ambulance_crew-240x140.jpg)
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![2016 Shetland Wool Week patron Ella Gordon. Photo: Jeni Reid.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Jeni_Reid_SWW15small_size___154-240x140.jpg)
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