Original sentence: He is particularly remembered in Orkney for a letter he wrote to The Times in 1967 suggesting return of Orkney and Shetland to Norway after five centuries as part of Scotland.In its wake came a stream of local publicity efforts.Mackay (1909, Maeback, Papa Westray, Orkney) a Scottish man of letters, taught at Stronsay and North Ronaldsay and was headmaster of Sanday School from 1946 to 1970
Edited sentence: He is particularly remembered in Orkney for a letter he wrote to The Times in 1967 suggesting return of Orkney and Shetland to Norway after five centuries in pawn to Scotland.In its wake came a stream of local publicity efforts, which eventually led to the Tory opposition incorporating into its manifesto a pledge to continue Orkney and Shetlands' separate local authority status, a pledge which they kept on election in 1970.Mackay (1909, Maeback, Papa Westray, Orkney) was an Orcadian man of letters, taught at Stronsay and North Ronaldsay and was headmaster of Sanday School from 1946 to 1970