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Sumburgh Airport
75 years ago, on April 18th 1933, a DeHaviland Moth with 4 passengers on board, was the first aircraft to land on the Sumburgh Links. It was to be over 3 years before scheduled air services to Shetland started, on 2nd June 1936. And on 23rd November 1937 the first scheduled air mail started. For more information about Sumburgh Airport and it's history, click on This Link. Mini Feature
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Modern trawlers continue Shetland's tradition as a fishing community.
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J. Laughton Johnston is a poet, novelist and biographer, and the author of A Naturalist's Shetland, the only comprehensive account of Shetland's natural history from its geological beginnings to the present day. He is also the author of Scotland's Nature in Trust, written in association with the National Trust for Scotland on the environmental management of their island and mountain properties. Johnston has an excellent knowledge of Shetland's wildlife, as well as its history and culture, being a half-Shetlander himself and familiar with the islands since childhood. From 1969 until he took early retirement, he worked for Scottish Natural Heritage. During that period, among other things, he was responsible for Shetland and Orkney for 6 years and the island of Rum on the West Coast of Scotland. Because of his love of the islands he has recently renovated a cottage in Sandness where he now spends half the year wildlife guiding and writing. Laughton Johnston is the son of the author Elizabeth Balneaves.
Peerie Spotlight
Thursday, 1st May, sees the start of the 2008 Shetland Folk Festival. The annual event, which started in 1981, attracts visiting artists from all over the world.
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