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![Shetland's football captain Leighton Flaws with his son Spencer. Photo: Shetnews/Chris Cope](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_8896-240x140.jpg)
![Shetland Mussels managing director Michael Tait.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_1782-240x140.jpg)
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![The gas plant site back in late 2013. Petrofac says construction is now "substantially complete".](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/130917_gas_plant_under_construction_1_Photo_Malcolm_YoungerMillgaet_Media-240x140.jpg)
![Julie Odie pictured with JBT's Tony Monaghan and the parcels bound for Moldova.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/150623_moldova_aid-240x140.jpg)
![Reverend David Cooper at the Gutcher ferry terminal in Yell. Photo: Church of Scotland](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Rev_David_Cooper_at_Gutcher_Ferry_Terminal_Yell_Shetland-240x140.jpg)
![The Shetland Befriending Scheme team, from left to right: Elaine Mouat, Pauline Mackie, Lynn Tulloch, Mairi Jamieson and Laura Russell. Missing from the photo is staff member Amanda Brown.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/DSC_2209-240x140.jpg)
![Loganair has been taken aback by the strength of feeling among islanders about high prices and unreliable flights.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Loganair_Saab_2000_1-240x140.jpg)
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![Hirda, the new opera Shetland fiddler Chris Stout has collaborated on.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Group-240x140.jpg)
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![Evergreen on the beach - "our rehearsals are such a laugh". From left: teacher Maria Barclay, Nicole Coutts, Sophie Morris, Laura Brannan, Rachel Keay and Rebecca Millar. Photo Dave Donaldson](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/150619_evergreen-240x140.jpg)
![Lerwick's small boat harbour beside which the sculpture will be erected. Photo Peter Leask](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/small-boat-harbour-240x140.jpg)
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![The four victims of the Super Puma crash in August 2013; clockwise from top left: George Allison, Gary McCrossan, Duncan Munro and Sarah Darnley.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/the_four_fatalities-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland Amenity Trust general manager Jimmy Moncrieff.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/jimmy_moncrieff-240x140.jpg)
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![Team Shetland – Forty five competitors and officials travelled to Bermuda for the last Games in 2013. Team Shetland will be over three times larger this year, with 142 competitors and officials. Photo courtesy of SIGA](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Team_Shetland-240x140.jpg)
![SIC leader Gary Robinson says the charitable trust's failure to communicate is "proving to be a headache".](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/130617_Gary_Robinson_small-240x140.jpg)
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![Victoria Mouat with a dazzling array of cakes at her new vintage tearoom in Haroldswick.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/150617_victorias_vintage_tearooms_1-240x140.jpg)
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