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Ruth Brownlee

Ruth Brownlee

Ruth Brownlee is an artist whose paintings have been widely exhibited in Britain and overseas and have found their way into private collections in the UK, Norway, Switzerland, France, USA, Hong Kong and New Zealand. Her work is also in the Shetland Museum’s collection. Read more

Maggie Dunne

Maggie Dunne

Maggie Dunne works for the Council’s Infrastructure Services Department, which, like most Council services, is based in Shetland’s main town, Lerwick. Her first visit to Shetland was in October 2003, when she came up for an interview. Read more

Pete and Linda Glanville

Pete Glanville

Pete and Linda Glanville were among the many who first came to Shetland in the mid-1970s in order to help bring North Sea oil ashore. Pete and Linda arrived in 1976; Pete had a three-year contract for work at the Sullom Voe Oil Terminal, which was then under construction. Like others, they decided to put down roots in the islands. Read more

Hugh Harrop

Hugh Harrop

Hugh Harrop, one of Shetland’s leading naturalists and wildlife photographers, runs a successful wildlife travel business in the islands. This is how he recalls his move to Shetland. Read more

Natalie Ho

Natalie Ho

Natalie Ho is a restaurateur in Lerwick. She first came to the islands as a child in 1979. Her parents and uncle had opened the islands’ first Chinese restaurant two years earlier. These are her impressions. Read more

Tess Leask

Tess Leask

Tess Leask came to Shetland from the Philippines and has made her home in the islands; she has worked for the Council and, in her spare time, she sings and plays with her band, ‘Loveshack’. Read more

Sakchai Makao

Sakchai Makao

Sakchai is a lifeguard at the islands’ largest swimming pool and a noted local athlete. Had the intentions of the British Home Office been fulfilled, he would have been deported to Thailand in 2006 – a country with which he no longer any real connection. However, the people of Shetland rose en masse to prevent his deportation and the campaign won an award. Read more

Iain McDiarmid

Iain McDiarmid

Iain McDiarmid and his family have lived in Shetland since 1998 and he has been the Council’s Head of Planning since 2006. These are his impressions. Read more

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