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![A Hercules aircraft spraying dispersants while fishing boats and a Sullom Voe harbour tug pretent to deploying booms - Photo: Hans J Marter, Shetland News](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/hercules-flyover-240x140.jpg)
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![Specialist vets Andrew Brownlow (left) and Bob Reid after the post mortem - Photo: Pete Bevington, Shetland News](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/bob-reid-and-andrew-brownlow-240x140.jpg)
![Ambassadors Mhairi Gifford from Shetland (top right corner), 18 year old Danielle Pryce from Aberystwyth, Wales; 14 year old Cassie Munro from Holywood, Belfast, Northern Ireland; 19 year old Sophie Lowe from Norwich, East of England; 14 year old Amy Johns from Penzance, Cornwall; and 14 year old Simran Dhingra-Smith from Newham, London point to their respective homes on the map during London 2012 Olympic Torch Relay Briefing - Photo by Matt Cardy](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/olympic-torch-rallye-240x140.jpg)
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![The long finned long-finned pilot whale had spent three days swimming around the busy oil port - Photo: Austin Taylor](https://mirror3.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/201100-05201-240x140.jpg)
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