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  • It is three out of three for the Shetland Women Football team with a 2-1 away-win over Musselburgh Windsor in the Scottish Cup. Freya Leslie scored both goals for Shetland.

  • A group representing 200 rural community councils, including from Shetland, has united to demand an independent inquiry into the impact of huge green energy and electricity infrastructure projects across Scotland.

  • This is the last day that the NHS Shetland Walk-In Clinic will operate from its temporary location at Outpatients at the Gilbert Bain Hospital. From tomorrow the Walk-In Clinic will return to Grantfield.

  • There was a wreath-laying ceremony at the war memorial at the Lerwick Town Hall yesterday. During Battle of Britian week, this was in honour of those lost during the Battle of Britain.

  • A juvenile American black tern has been spotted hawking for food over the water in the Loch of Tingwall. This was the first record of an American black tern in Shetland,

  • White fish box landings: 11 boats landed about 1300 boxes.

  • The cruise ship in Lerwick harbour today is the 229 metre Viking Jupiter at Mairs East on arrival from Aberdeen and departure for Bergen. The next cruise ship visit is on Saturday.

  • Police Scotland said that on Friday evening it had received a report that a possible ordnance device, identifed as first world war hand grenade.

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