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Editorial: We’d be worse off without foreigners
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![Ann Cleeves signed copies of her new book Cold Earth out in the Mareel foyer. Photo: Davie Gardner](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/IMG_4084-240x140.jpg)
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![One of Yorkshire's very finest, Richard Hawley, on stage at Mareel on Tuesday night. Photo: Shetnews/Kelly Nicolson Riddell](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DSC_0596-240x140.jpg)
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![KT Tunstall was in great voice in Lerwick on Tuesday night. Photo: Shetnews/Kelly Nicolson Riddell](https://mirror1.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/DSC_3165-240x140.jpg)
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![From left: bassist Graham Malcolmson, singers Sheila Duncan and Freda Leask, mandolinist Lewie Peterson and fiddler Lois Nicol around a single mic at Mareel on Saturday evening. Photo: Dale Smith](https://mirror2.shetnews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/MG_8650_A4_Final-240x140.jpg)
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