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SHETLAND’s 19th
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![Getting into gear BBC Radio Shetland's biggest night are (from left): Richard Forbes, John Johnston, Pudsey, Mike Grundon and Jane Moncrieff. Now where is Daniel Lawson?](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141113_BBC_shetland-240x140.jpg)
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![Iain Gulland (centre) with the winners of this year's Shetland Environmental Awards at the Shetland Museum and Archives on Wednesday - Photo: Austin Taylor](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141112_Environmental_awards-240x140.jpg)
![Natasha Fraser's daughter Akira, who turns two later this month.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Akira_cropped-240x140.jpg)
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![Stephen Rocks (right) with his coach Andy Alderman.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141112_Andy_Alderman__Stephen_Rocks-240x140.jpg)
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![A computer generated image of the main entrance atrium of the new Anderson High School - Image: SIC](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141112_Main_entrance_atrium_1_copy-240x140.jpg)
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![The fisheries protection vessel Hitra escorting Christian I Grotinum to Lerwick harbour on Sunday - Photo: Ian Leask](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141109_Kristian_I_Grotinum_detained-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland-based poet Jen Hadfield.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Hadfield_Jen-240x140.jpg)
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![A panoramic view of what the new building could look like.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/New_panorama3After-240x140.jpg)
![The artwork for Adam Guest's EP 'Open the Book'.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/open_the_book_artwork-240x140.jpg)
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![The fisheries protection vessel Hitra escorting Christian I Grotinum to Lerwick harbour on Sunday - Photo: Ian Leask](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141109_Kristian_I_Grotinum_detained-240x140.jpg)
![Burravoe Primary School narrowly avoided closure two years ago.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/burravoe_primary_school_1-240x140.jpg)
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![The fisheries protection vessel Hitra escorting Christian I Grotinum to Lerwick harbour on Sunday - Photo: Ian Leask](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141109_Kristian_I_Grotinum_detained-240x140.jpg)
![The new rural freight centre beside COPE's Shetland Scrapstore at Gremista. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141107_scrapstore_rural_freight_office_copy_2-240x140.jpg)
![Work being carried out on the new Northmavine power line last year.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/130626_northmavine_power_line_1-240x140.jpg)
![The Walls war memorial before the work was done last month.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Shetland355-240x140.jpg)
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![Scottish education secretary Mike Russell](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Mike-Russell_tcm4-666371-240x140.jpg)
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![Lord Smith of Kelvin, who chairs the Scotland Devolution Commission, which is to draw up initial proposals based on thousands of submissions before the end of this month.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Lord-Smith-of-Kelvin-240x140.jpg)
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![Sandwick woman Gemma Graham, right, with some of her fellow climbers during the Kilamanjaro trek in late August.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141106_gemma_kilamanjaro_2-240x140.jpg)
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![Tavish Scott - pictured in Hillswick last year - wants the SIC to scrap school closures.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/140813_tavish_in_hillswick-240x140.jpg)
![Protesters hung a banner on the stairs of Lerwick Town Hall on Wednesday morning. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/IMG_1183-240x140.jpg)
![Urafirth parents outside Lerwick Town Hall on Wednesday morning. Photo: Shetnews/Hans Marter](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141105_Urafirth_parents-240x140.jpg)
![Edinburgh singer Adam Holmes was a hit at this year's folk festival.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/10._Adam_Holmes-240x140.jpg)
![Mike MacKenzie meeting the Urafirth community at the weekend. He wants school closures taken off the agenda for five years. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/141101_mike_mackenzie__urafirth_2-240x140.jpg)
![Councillor Andrea Manson.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/andrea_manson-238x269-240x140.jpg)
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