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We live on UK island with no traffic lights & ‘we’re all related to each other’… but that’s not our biggest problem
One poor islander was the only person in his primary school class
RESIDENTS living on a UK island with no traffic lights say they are "all related to each other" - but that's not our biggest problem.
Just 600 people live in Unst in the Shetlands - the most northerly inhabited place in the UK.
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The tiny island sits 212 from mainland Scotland and has patchy phone signal, with youngsters commuting by ferry to school.
Fisherman Connel Gresham, 29, told the : "Everyone is related in some way.
"There's probably more people in a big Tesco supermarket in a city than there are on the islands at times."
Michael Jamieson, 17, takes the ferry to school in Lerwick on mainland Shetland every week.
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Just two ferries connect Unst to the rest of the world, so his commute requires careful planning.
The teen was the only person in his primary school class, and plays alongside Connel for North Isles Football Club - the most northerly team in the UK.
Hannah Eynon, moved to Unst from Londonderry in Northern Ireland a year and a half ago.
She said that is "screwed" without a car - and sometimes "needs a break" from her isolation on the island.
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But she has no regrets about moving - and misses Unst whenever she is away.
Hannah said: "It's weird. I just long for the sea."
But the locals aren't the only ones to give up living on the mainland for a more solitary existence.
A Brit is the leader of a remote island in the middle of the ocean - and claims it's the smallest country in the world.
Michael Bates became the leader of "Sealand", a platform 7.5 miles off the Suffolk coast, when his dad Roy died in 1991.
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