Ill wind
photo: Alamy, Dave Donaldson
The Shetland Way MARIANNE BROWN
There’s real tension in this hard-edged quarter-of-a-century-long story of profit and loss which defines the stand-off between local groups who want to protect wildlife, peat banks and something which can only be called “way of life”, and the pragmatic long-term view of those who look, not locally, but globally.
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