Islands adrift

Locating Shetland has been a problem for a long time (“Shetland is an ‘afterthought’ as maps depict islands in wrong part of Scotland”, 20 March). Many years ago a colleague who had gone from Edinburgh to the islands on business had his expenses sheet rejected as excessive by the accounts department. They claimed that according to their office map Shetland was located in the Firth of Forth, and was therefore virtually only a local trip! LAING SPEIRS Bowden Knowe Bowden, Melrose