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Emma Macdonald and Andrea Manson take the top two jobs in the new council – the first time women have been appointed to the roles

THE VOTES have been counted, the results declared - Shetland’s next cohort of councillors has all but been decided. Twenty two out of the 23 Shetland Islands Council members for the next five years are now known, with a by-election due to be held in the North Isles for the...

THERE is little doubt that the possible provision of fixed links to island communities will be top of the agenda once the new councillors get their feet under the table and start their five years in local government. Almost all of the 35 candidates have offered a view on the...

ONE of the candidates for the Shetland West ward in the May council elections has removed himself from the running. Peter Fraser said that due to personal circumstances he no longer wishes to be considered for election. “It would have been an honour and a privilege to...

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