Boddam

Police, coastguard and the RNLI were sent to the coastal path near Boddam where the woman had got into difficulty.

Aberdeenshire Council had expressed "regret" last year over how it announced the planned closures.

Options for the way forward are being explored, and a series of community meetings are to be held.

Aberdeenshire Council says it would rather have engaged fully with communities before announcing closures.

Live Life Aberdeenshire said the locations were seeing lower numbers of users in recent years.

The dog had reportedly been aggressive towards its owner before attacking a man and woman a week later.

The animal was seized by officers after injuring a man and a woman in the incident and was later put down.

25-year-old Fraser Smith from the Boddam area in Shetland was pronounced dead at the scene.