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Games team gets £5,000 council grant after Duncan fails in bid for increase

Shetland’s 45-strong island games team will get a £5,000 council grant towards the cost of travelling to Bermuda for this summer’s competition.

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Rowers prepare for first regatta at Bigton next weekend

Despite the unseasonal weather so far the various isles rowing teams have begun preparing for the first regatta next weekend.

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Games girls model new kits

The official Shetland team kit for this year’s NatWest Island Games in Bermuda was revealed at the weekend.

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Ultramarathon leaves champion Charlotte wobbly . . . and delighted

Shetland runner Charlotte Black completed an epic feat in Perth last weekend, becoming Scottish women’s champion in her first ever 100 kilometre race.

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Cause for celebration at Sports Awards

The sporting community celebrated in style at the Shetland Sports Awards last night.

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Isles swimmer gets a place on national sports panel

Swimmer Amy Harper, 20, from Gulberwick, has won a place on the first Young People’s Sport Panel, a project to promote the benefits of sport to young people across the country.

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The week’s sports fixtures

Sports fixtures for the coming week

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Gotland to stage island games in 2017

Gotland will stage the NatWest Island Games in 2017, the second time the Swedish island has been awarded the privilege.…

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The week’s sports fixtures

Sports fixtures for the coming week

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Lerwick youngsters chosen as youth ambassadors for Commonwealth Games of 2014

Teenagers Kristoffer Thomason and Lauren Odie, both from Lerwick, have been announced as Shetland’s Youth Legacy Ambassadors for the Glasgow Commonwealth 2014 Games.

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