Stout ‘astounded’ to win Highland Book Prize
Judges praise Night Train to Odesa as ‘accomplished and beautiful work, blending journalism, memoir, history, art’
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- Night Train to Odesa also serialised for ‘Book of the Week’ on BBC4
- Book launch will be followed by fundraising event at Mareel
Following a few months home during the summer, Shetland journalist Jen Stout has returned to Ukraine to report from a defiant country determined to free itself from the Russian aggression. Here she sends her latest report.
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‘We have to ensure that the challenges faced by Tetiana are not repeated for anyone else’, MP Carmichael says
From cakes, cycling and concerts to pop-up shops and auctions – Shetland has risen to the fundraising challenge
In her latest dispatch from the Ukrainian border with Romania, Jen Stout reports on heartbreak and many acts of kindness as people leave everything behind to escape the Russian aggression against their homeland.
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Shetland Islands Council chief Maggie Sandison said ‘we should be able to develop arrangements quickly’
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On the day the UK is finally moving towards accepting tens of thousands of displaced people under the Homes for Ukraine Scheme, Shetland journalist Jen Stout has sent her latest account from the Ukrainian border with Romania, from where she has been reporting for the national media since early March.
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The council is speaking to fund managers about the options for exiting the investments
After having to leave Moscow at the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Shetland journalist Jen Stout is now at the Ukrainian border with Romania, near the Black Sea, from where she sends her latest account of the humanitarian crisis of this brutal war.
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