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GAPS in the health and safety team at Shetland Islands Council were put under the microscope at the local authority’s audit committee on Tuesday morning. Some councillors were disappointed to learn that a health and safety officer was not replaced after they left the council.
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PROPOSALS for a mobile phone mast near Lerwick Town Hall have suffered another setback after gaining no support from members of Shetland Islands Council’s planning committee.
Lerwick North councillor Malcolm Bell said the 17.5 metre mast would be a “monstrosity” if it was erected in its proposed location at the top of Quendale Lane near Hillhead.
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An appeal on the previously refused plans went in front of the planning committee on Monday and councillors upheld the original decision.
Telefónica, which owns mobile operator O2, had applied to install the mast and associated infrastructure to improve network services in the area.
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A combined community effort from Taranaki conservation groups, local authorities and school children is getting behind a predator-free project to release kiwi into the Kaitake Ranges for the first time.
Adult kiwi are soon to be re-released onto Taranaki s Kaitake ranges for the first time, prompting a warning for dog owners to keep their pets leashed around the park area. The kiwi are to be released onto the range in about three month s time, following extensive trapping and aerial 1080 operations that have decimated rat, mustelid and possum numbers in the Kaitake and Pouakai ranges. The re-release is a significant milestone in the Restore Kaitake campaign, undertaken as part of the Taranaki Regional Council’s Towards Predator-Free 2050 programme.