FROM time to time my mailbag produces invitations to embassy parties. ...

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25 YEARS AGO BOOKINGS are now being taken for the Lerwick Harbour Trust’s new Shetland Hotel which opens in March next year. ...

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Unst Youth Centre re-opens “IT STARTED with a fire and ended with a bang. ...

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Scalloway health centre THERE was cause for celebration at Scalloway Health Centre this week when staff member Joan Hughson completed three years of study and practical training to gain her NVQ Level 2 in Pharmacy Services. ...

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Voe Hall meeting THE VOE Hall is an important part of the community and refurbishments over the years mean that it can cater for events of varying sizes. ...

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More 6 please, we’re British THE hugely popular series of mid-sized family cars from Mazda is being extended in January. ...

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25 YEARS AGO Women from the Greenham Common peace camp have started a fund-raising campaign to buy the island of Vaila, which has been up for sale for the last three years. ...

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THE year I was elected to Shetland Islands Council, South Africans queued around the clock, for hours and hours, to vote for Nelson Mandela. ...

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Christmas hampers AS THE festive season approaches, the Scalloway Community Council is appealing for notification from people in the Scalloway area about local residents who have turned 80 this year, or those who will do so before the end of March 2009. ...

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Uyeasound poster FOLLOWING the success of last year’s “drive on dipped” poster campaign, the pupils of Uyeasound School have come up with a new poster. ...

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