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New £20m plan to build mega-tunnels between most remote UK islands
with around 11% of its road network now underground. Reports suggest these tunnels have had a transformative impact, ...
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Shetland Islands: Where Scandinavia Meets Scotland
Shetland is an archipelago of more than 100 islands, only 15 of which are inhabited. The islands lie around 50 miles to the northeast of Orkney and ... by chance during road construction in ...
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Orkney and Shetland MP, Chair of All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries
Alistair Carmichael, MP for Orkney and Shetland, has been elected Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fisheries (APPG). APPG is a cross-party group in Parliament that discusses and ...
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Shetland
Jules Wilson Nimmo and Greg Hemphill check out swimming spots in the Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland. Ian Napier had not been seeing since heading off for a walking or swimming session in ...
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Orkney council to look at proposals to become territory of Norway
Council leader James Stockan said Orkney ... RET (Road Equivalent Tariff) for ferry fares. "And the funding we get from the Scottish government is significantly less per head than Shetland and ...
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Alistair Carmichael
Alistair was elected to Parliament in 2001 as MP for Orkney and Shetland. Alistair was born and raised on Islay. He first worked in the hotel industry before attending University of Aberdeen where he ...