The streets of a tiny Scottish town were filled with fire and smoke as hundreds gathered together for a Viking festival. Up ...

Lerwick, United Kingdom - January 28, 2025 Lerwick is once again the setting for the Up Helly Aa festival, which dates back to the 1880s and celebrates the culture and heritage of the Vikings of ...

Scotland’s remote Shetland archipelago could be just ... the biggest urban area on the Shetland Islands. On the edge of Lerwick, Clickimin Broch is another example of Shetland’s historic ...

Here is everything you need to know about Up Helly Aa in Shetland as the fiery festival returns this week for 2025.

Scotland's most northerly inhabited island. Those behind the plans believe it could create 350 jobs across Shetland. At present, the journey from Unst to Lerwick on the mainland would involve two ...

LORD lieutenant Lindsay Tulloch and council convener Andrea Manson led the laying of wreaths at a short ceremony today ...

Watch live coverage of the annual Viking festival ‘Up Helly Aa’ in Scotland, showing the torchlit evening procession and ...

Lockerbie and District Rotary Club members enjoyed a tour of the Shetland Isles at their latest meeting.

The Shetland Islands are Scotland’s northernmost isles ... the largest charmingly called Mainland. It’s here, in Lerwick, that our overnight ferry docks 12 long hours after leaving Aberdeen ...

The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival. The event, which is traditionally held on the last Tuesday of January, ...

Shetland's biggest and most spectacular Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival is taking place in the capital Lerwick. It is one of 12 celebrating the islands' Norse heritage, culminating in the burning ...