![SIC convener Malcolm Bell.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/140225_Malcolm_Bell-240x140.jpg)
Calls for single local emergency control room
![SIC convener Malcolm Bell.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/140225_Malcolm_Bell-240x140.jpg)
![Teeanger Sophie Wishart with the prize she won for her outstanding exam result.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/IMG_0181-240x140.jpg)
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![Isles fiddler Jenna Reid.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Jenna-240x140.jpg)
![MSP Jean Urquhart is calling on small businesses to provide evidence of high delivery charges.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/jean_urquhart_official_1-240x140.jpg)
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![The proposed Anderson High School with the halls of residence in the background. Image: SIC](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/140204_new_design_2-240x140.jpg)
![Four oil workers died when this Super Puma L2 crashed into the sea off Shetland in August last year - Photo: Peter Hutchison/ShetNews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130824_Ditched_copter_1-240x140.jpg)
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![The waste to energy plant at Gremista.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Waste_to_Energy_plant-240x140.jpg)
![Librarian Morag Nicolson with Lainey Sinclair, aged 11 and Lindsey Sim, aged 10.](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Library-240x140.jpg)
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![LHD's shop is to move into Leask's Esplanade premises, which was a travel agency until two years ago.](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/john_leask__son-240x140.jpg)
![Isles MP and Scottish Secretary Alistair Carmichael.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130921_Alistair_Carmichael_2-240x140.jpg)
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![Pictured outside Lerwick Town Hall following the latest meeting with Scottish ministers to discuss further autonomy for the islands are (left to right): Western Isles leader Angus Campbell, Orkney leader Steven Heddle, Scottish planning minister Derek Mackay and SIC leader Gary Robinson. Photo: Shetnews/Neil Riddell](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/our_islands_our_future-240x140.jpg)
![Declan O'Rourke on stage at Clickimin as part of the 2012 Transatlantic Sessions. Photo: Billy Fox](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Declan_ORourke_Clickimin-240x140.jpg)
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![The 21-year-old Leirna is being given a new lease of life at a cost of £1 million. Photo: SIC](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Leirna_3-240x140.jpg)
![Trading standards continues to offer "no uninvited salespeople" window stickers.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/No_uninvited_sales_people_sticker_in_window-240x140.jpg)
![The east extension of Sumburgh runway. Photo: Shetnews](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/est_extension_of_Sumburgh_runway-240x140.jpg)
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![NHS Shetland chairman Ian Kinniburgh.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/kinniburgh-240x140.jpg)
![Davie Henderson.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/davie_henderson_celtic_connections_2013_copyright_Sean_Purser-240x140.jpg)
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![The SIC delegation outside Downing Street in December 2012.](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/121220_sic_housing_delegation-240x140.jpg)
![Shetland has a resident population of eider ducks, two thirds of whom now congregate around aquaculture sites and are in serious decline. Photo Hugh Harrop/Shetland Wildlife](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Eiders-by-Hugh-Harrop-Shetland-Wildlife_copy-240x140.jpg)
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![Shetland Museum and Archives remains the most popular visitor attraction in Shetland according to the latest survey. Photo Shetland Amenity Trust](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Photo_Shetlnd_Amenity_Trust-240x140.jpg)
![Work on the Total gas plant will now continue unhindered by strike action. Photo Malcolm YoungerMillgaet Media](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/130917_gas_plant_under_construction_Photo_Malcolm_YoungerMillgaet_Media-240x140.jpg)
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