Community / Increased interest in isles as place to live and work
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Community / Cunningsburgh Show goes online
Community / Lerwick Up Helly Aa festivals postponed until 2022
Community / ‘Breaking down barriers’ in support of Ability Shetland
Community / Nesting and Girlsta Up Helly Aa postponed until 2022The festival’s committee also confirms the ‘use of racial stereotyping’ in squads is not acceptable
Community / ‘Save our hotels’ petition gains support
Community / Hotel staff ‘must now get the support they need’
Community / Playparks and multicourts to reopen next week
Community / Rainbow flag flying on top of Town Hall to mark Pride Month
Community / Reopening museum will cost ‘significant sums of money’
Community / Community council schemes intended to help those affected by coronavirus
Community / Library books on the move again
Community / Local phone support line set up for health and care workers during Covid-19 pandemic
Community / Fundraiser leaves Hildasay to resume coastline walk after three-month island isolation
Updated Anti-racism protest walk held in Lerwick
Community / Another business on the market in Scalloway but plan provides source of positivity
Community / Dog photographer left feeling ‘sick’ after scammers sell images online
Community / BA confirms £57,000 refund for jarl squads’ cancelled trip to New York
Community / Jarl squads still waiting on refunds of over £50,000 from airline for cancelled New York TripTrip organiser Martin Summers says after 11 weeks it is ‘time for British Airways to settle the refund’
Community / ‘I feel such a lift of energy and support’ – anti-racism protest provides source of optimism
Community / Second weekend of Black Lives Matter protest
Community / Shetland shows solidarity with global Black Lives Matter movement
Community / In pictures: Shetland staands wi Black Lives Matter
Community / Almost 50 poster pick-up points from Unst to Fair Isle for Black Lives Matter event
Community / Motion lodged at Scottish Parliament calling for end of ‘blackface’ at Up Helly Aa festivalsLerwick Up Helly Aa said it would also not tolerate ‘blacking up’
Updated ‘Ignorance does not make this acceptable’ – pressure grows on blackface to be banned in Up Helly Aa squads
Updated ‘Time for change’ as local events planned in support of Black Lives Matter movementMSP Beatrice Wishart calls on the local community to ‘do better’
Community / Carers week puts unpaid carers in the spotlight
Community / Pandemic puts first phase of church closures on hold
Community / Depopulation fears raised as ‘perfect storm’ looms in north mainland
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