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Also in the news 4 May 2026

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A bearded man in a red knit beanie and blue jacket stands in a grassy field, holding an acoustic guitar, with green hills and a few houses
  • Russian activity highlights Shetland’s strategic importance, MP says
  • Candidate’s salmon visit
  • Soup and a show programme
  • Singing workshops
  • Loganair’s GreenSkies fund reopens
  • Seafood processing census
  • Snowballs on the Sandness Hill
Two flags flying at half mast on poles in front of a stone Victorian-style building with a bay window and dark wooden entrance door. A blue
  • Flags at half mast for Josie Simpson
  • Survey says Scots want more public ownership in renewables
  • Plans to reduce flood risk at Gaet-a-Gott
  • Revellers gig organised by Whalsay bairns
Group of twelve people seated and standing in front of a "TalEntEd Islands" banner showing wind turbines, standing stones and island
  • Surface dressing programme
  • Overnight road closure
  • Eerie photos sought
  • Funding for supporting victims of crime
  • UHI hosts ‘TalEntEd Islands’ event
  • Mid-market rent applications
  • Recruitment for walk-in GP clinic
  • Poll letters delivered
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A man in an orange T-shirt plays guitar and sings into a microphone on stage under soft lighting.
  • Folk festival programme
  • Donald Murray book launch
  • Drones capture porpoise footage
  • People needed for energy workshops
  • Arts funding
  • Fishing manifesto support
  • Nugent on gender recognition reform
A white NorthLink ferry with blue hull and wave motif cruises across calm blue water toward green, grassy hills topped by a radio mast
  • Northern Isles ferry service contract progress
  • Knitting meeting
  • Salmon farmers help out in heavy snow
  • Library team celebrates World Book Day
  • Giants Dance in Da Simmer Dim workshops
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Five older adults stand in front of bookshelves at a library, three holding copies of the book "The Midwife of Auschwitz," and all are smiling at the camera.
  • Fuel poverty panel appointment
  • Daggri still out of service
  • Safer internet day
  • Shetland link to Oregon book group
  • Quarry extension consultation
  • MSP’s salmon death concern
  • Media awards
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