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Two crew members still missing after October incident north of Lewis
Police Scotland said an empty life raft from the missing fishing boat Kilda had washed up in Shetland, about 200 miles north-east of where the vessel sank. One crew member's body was found the day after the disappearance; two others remain unaccounted for.
Heavy rain described as "biblical" caused flash flooding across Shetland on Thursday, forcing businesses in Lerwick to close and triggering a landslide that blocked a road on the west side of the island, ahead of yellow wind warnings for Storm Boelo this weekend.
14 days agoPoliticians are calling for strengthened military protection of the Shetland Isles after increased sightings of Russian trawlers off Scotland. A Daily Telegraph analysis also reported more than 500 incidents in which Russian boats were stationed above undersea cables linking Britain with Europe and the US. The cables carry the majority of telecoms data abroad, and there are also concerns that the £30m SaxaVord Spaceport could be a Russian target.
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