Shetlanders flirt with independence after Brexit vote
In 1,300 years Shetland has been overrun by Vikings, pawned to Scotland as a wedding dowry, subsumed into the UK in 1707, and dragged into the EEC against its will in 1973 (AFP Photo/Andy BUCHANAN)/ Lerwick (United Kingdom) (AFP) - Of all the ramifications of the Brexit vote, the fate of the Shetland Islands in the North Atlantic and their oil fields and fisheries may not top the list for negotiators in London and Brussels. But the prospect of a new bid for Scottish independence as Britain leaves the EU is making some residents of these ...
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