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New hotel to be ‘home from home’ for oil workers – but locals welcome too

If the development of Total’s new gas plant is out of sight, construction of the Moorfield Hotel in Brae has been a conspicuous sign of the new off-shore boom. Ryan Taylor and photographer Dave Donaldson were given a tour of the building as it nears completion.

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Grand finale from April Verch provides highlight at Hamnavoe

Hamnavoe Hall filled to the brim last night as crowds gathered to hear what the 33rd folk festival had to offer.

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Opening night Cunningsburgh show lives up to expectations

The line-up last night at Cunningsburgh on the opening night of the 33rd Shetland Folk Festival promised much. And it promptly delivered on a committee promise to festival stalwart, the late Michael Coutts, that “we’ll make sure that this festival is one of the best yet”.

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Big success for Mareel as cinema bug bites in Shetland

Mareel has attracted nearly three times its expected cinema audience during its first seven weeks of operation, according to Shetland Arts director Gwilym Gibbons.

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Times Past

The TV licence detector squad’s recent campaign in Shetland has prompted a sudden rush of work in the main Lerwick post office, with up to 300 applications for new licences.

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Letter from Westminster

For the first nine years that I was in Parliament autumn statement and budget days were routinely an excuse for me and my colleagues from different parts of the Highlands and Islands to get to our feet and to demand a lower rate of duty paid on petrol and diesel to take some account of the higher prices that we pay at the pumps compared to people living in towns and cities on the mainland.

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Times Past

Four Shetland men risked their lives by going into a burning building to check if there was anyone inside a blazing television lounge at the Staney Hill Hostel in Lerwick.

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Letter from Edinburgh

Erbil is the capital of Kurdistan and Kurdistan is the new Saudi Arabia with the fourth largest oil reserves on the planet.

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Letter from Westminster

When the House of Commons is sitting it has been the practice in recent years to mark the two minutes silence on 11th November by standing in silence in the chamber and I have always been part of that.

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Times Past

In the aftermath of the world’s worst civil helicopter disaster at Sumburgh last Thursday the future of the Chinook aircraft in the North Sea is in doubt.

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