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Shetland News writer/Local Democracy Reporter for Shetland. Also do some words for Prog magazine. If ever I have any views, they are entirely my own...
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740 miles in 17.5 hours: Chasing the sun on the CFMoto 1000MT-X

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By Chris Cope Verified
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I blame it on my Texas upbringing: the strange blurring of the concepts of “could” and “should.” It was worse when I was younger. I’d look at a tree and think: “I’ll bet I could jump from that branch onto that house...” A minute later, I’d be climbing up the tree – discovering that the distance between branch and roof had somehow grown exponentially in the time it had taken me to clamber up.
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£15m Shetland road project likely to remain on the backburner

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By Chris Cope Verified
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Shetland Islands Council "cannot continue to pile up projects that we have no funding for" as a proposed £15 million upgrade of the road into Walls looks likely to remain on the backburner. Shetland Central councillor Moraig Lyall said "it is simply a fact of life that we have to look at what we can and cannot possibly achieve".
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AI-generated job applications causing issues at NHS Shetland

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By Chris Cope Verified
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NHS Shetland is receiving a high number of job applications from overseas which do not meet eligibility criteria and are thought to be generated using artificial intelligence (AI). This is not said to be a local issue, with all health boards in Scotland reporting a "significant increase in non-genuine and ineligible applications" for high volume and entry level roles – mostly attributed to AI generated applications, automated bots and third party sources.
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