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SHETLAND Islands Council is planning to hold one of its regular meetings outside Lerwick for the first time in its history.
The move is an attempt to bring the work of the local authority nearer to the people.
Convener Malcolm Bell said on Wednesday that the council was looking at scheduling such a meeting for spring next year.
It also emerged during discussions of next year’s calendar of meetings that the council will not be able to conduct any relevant business in the immediate run-up to the referendum on Scottish independence in September.
Councillor Jonathan Wills said this was “deplorable” as council business had nothing to do with the referendum.
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