![Quota for NorthSea cod is going up by 15per cent in 2016 while the introduction of the discard ban for the species has been delayed by 12 months.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Cod2-240x140.jpg)
Whitefish sector pleased with quota uplifts
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![Local comedian Marjolein Robertson began an improv group after attending a workshop in New York.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151114_Marjolein_Robertson_in_new_york-240x140.jpg)
![First gas at the Shetland Gas Plant is expected before the end of the year - Photo: Total.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/150729_Shetland_Gas_Plant-240x140.jpg)
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![How the new indoor facility at Clickimin will look.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Panorama-240x140.jpg)
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![Living Lerwick chairwoman Cynthia Adamson with Elaine Burgess and Anna Moar of George Robertson Ltd.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/cynthia_elaine_anna-240x140.jpg)
![Smokey the bandit almost ended up being locked up over the weekend.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/12364059_10153796072578659_908156312_o-240x140.jpg)
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![SIC Leader Gary Robinson (right) and SIC development manager Douglas Irvine (left) take European Commissioner Johannes Hahn on a tour of the isles in 2013.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/130902_douglas_irvine_johannes_hahn_gary_robinson_PB-240x140.jpg)
![Elsbeth Stewart Clark signs a copy of her book Robin's Red Christmas for three-year-old Filip and Sonia Poniecki, aged eight, in the Aywick Shop at the start of her book signing tour of the isles – Photo: Charlie Inkster](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151211_Elsbeth_Stewart_Clark-240x140.jpg)
![Tory MEP and fisheries spokesman Ian Duncan](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Ian-Duncan-Picture-240x140.jpg)
![Shetland Fishermen's Association's new policy adviser Maria Aira Martin getting used to a closer climate in Lerwick harbour.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/maria_aira_martin-240x140.jpg)
![JM Ledgard (right) working in Somalia, where his novel Submergence is based.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/JML_Somalia_1998592b-240x140.jpg)
![PC Amanda Souter will be at the three festive safety advice sessions in Lerwick. Photo Hans J Marter/Shetnews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151210_pc_amanda_souter-240x140.jpg)
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![Alistair Carmichael MP](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Hughes_Carmichael_Cable-240x140.jpg)
![Henry MacColl is not taking the planners' decision lying down.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/henry_maccoll_small-240x140.jpg)
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![This image, by J. Peterson from 1938 showing a young girl at the door of E J Yates toy shop is one of the images that can be printed using the museum's new service](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Photo_Printing_C_Shetland_Museum-240x140.jpg)
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![Alistair Carmichael arriving at the Court of Session in Edinburgh last month.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_8399-240x140.jpg)
![Mati Ventrillon, whose design was used without credit by Chanel. Photo: Dave Cox Photography](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/rsz_1rsz_dylanthomas_westend_2757-240x140.jpg)
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![Alistair Carmichael arriving at the Court of Session last month.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/IMG_8399-240x140.jpg)
![The Hrossey leaving Lerwick in stormy conditions last year.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/140115_Hrossey_leaving_Lerwick-240x140.jpg)
![Fair Isle designer Mati Ventrillon at last year's craft fair - Photo: Hans J Marter/ShetNews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/141115_Mati_ventrillon-240x140.jpg)
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![An aerial view of the almost completed Shetland Gas Plant - Photo: Total UK](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/150729_Shetland_Gas_Plant-240x140.jpg)
![The R2D2-style swing bin that was stolen from Mareel on Friday night.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/rsz_r2d2-240x140.jpg)
![Emergency towing vessel Herakles.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/herakles_tug-240x140.jpg)
![Councillor Jonathan Wills.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/jonathan_wills2-240x140.jpg)
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![David Grieve and Angela Nunn of the Salvation Army's Lerwick branch with goods donated for food parcels. Photo: Shetnews/Neil Riddell](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/food_bank_david_grieve__angela_nunn-240x140.jpg)
![Signing the new VMS contract are LPA chief executive Sandra Laurenson and and James Woodward, area sales manager with Transas - Photo: LPA](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/151207_The_contract_signing_with_Sandra_Laurenson_Chief_Executive_Lerwick_Port_Authority_and_James_Woodward_Area_Sales_Manager_Transas-240x140.jpg)
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