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  • For the first time, at least in recent years, there are more voters registered in Orkney than in Shetland, but the overall population in Shetland remains higher than in Orkney.

  • Alistair Carmichael has warned that the new European Union-Australia trade agreement has driven home how disastrously Boris Johnson mishandled Britain’s trade negotiations in 2022.

  • The Sponsored Cycle Ride organised by Ability Shetland and Cycling UK for the Gilbertson Park on Sunday has been cancelled.

  • Women, who have been subjected to domestic abuse in Shetland and in Orkney, now have improved access to free specialist legal support.

  • Shetland Arts’ annual celebration of local film-making talent, HomeMade, is once again inviting local film-makers to create and to submit their short films, but this year there is a difference.

  • Production of the eleventh season of the crime drama Shetland is moving on from Kilbarchan in Renfrewshire to Greenock.

  • A coastguard helicopter based at Sumburgh was tasked to Herma Ness, in the north-west of Unst.

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