By ROSALIND GRIFFITHS GENERAL manager of ports and harbours operations Jim Dickson presided over his last meeting at Sella Ness a week ago. ...

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TRIBUTES have been paid this week to young undergraduate Duncan Hogg, the son of highly-respected teachers Forbes and Heather Hogg, who has died suddenly from a diabetes-related condition.

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A BALLOON launch is to take place at the Gilbertson Park on Sunday in memory of teenager Stuart Henderson, who was killed a year ago in a car accident.

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I FIRST got to know Bertie Nicolson of Brindister quite a few years ago, when we used to buy the occasional dairy calf to raise for suckler cows. ...

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IN THE third and final part of his series on the proposed Viking Energy windfarm, PAUL RIDDELL examines the financial impetus behind the project, the interconnector between Shetland and the mainland, the issue of peat disturbance and the impact on local democracy. ...

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In the second of a three-part series on the proposed Viking Energy windfarm, PAUL RIDDELL asks whether wind power is a reliable source of electricity and whether it is likely to be harmful to human health. Part three will appear next week.

IF THE government accepts the recommendations of the new committee on climate change published… ...

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A SMALL but enthusiastic crowd turned out at Gott School on Saturday night to welcome the speakers for the first of this year’s Althing debates. ...

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By PAUL RIDDELL THERE will be 154 of them, each as tall as the Great Pyramid, stretching across the north central Mainland, a colossal man-made forest of white steel designed to harvest Shetland’s most evident natural resource to make money for the community. ...

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DURING Wimbledon, two Bressay ferry men fell out as to who was the better tennis player. ...

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“LAST but not least” – that was the verdict of one visitor to the Yell Show. ...

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