The streets of Lerwick will once again fill up with fire and smoke later as Shetland gears up for the return of its world ...

Up Helly Aa echoes the long rule of the Kingdom of Norway over Shetland and the return of the sun following the darkest ...

New food hygiene ratings have been awarded to two of the Shetland Islands’s restaurants, cafes or canteens, the Food ...

It was an un-fire-gettable night in Lerwick this week as their world-famous fire festival filled the streets with flames and ...

Up Helly Aa is one of the most spectacular celebrations in Britain and pulls in tourists from around the world.

Visitors from around the world travel to Lerwick to watch the torchlit procession. Islanders don Viking outfits and march through the streets bearing ... following morning. Shetland and ...

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

Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed ...

Viking-inspired fire festival of Up Helly Aa, described by organizers as “a northern Mardi Gras,” was held in the town of Lerwick in Scotland’s Shetland Islands on Tuesday,8.The festival involves a ...