Robin McKelvie finds the perfect natural oasis in Lerwick, home to a popular TV series, thriving businesses and a spectacular wealth of wildlife ...
The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival ...
If introduced, the tax would be the first cruise ship levy in the whole of the UK. As of last year, councils now have the ...
Shetland has once again celebrated its annual fire festival - the largest of its kind in Europe. Up Helly Aa has been held for over 140 years in Lerwick to celebrate Shetland's Norse heritage. Women ...
Tonight in Lerwick, Shetland’s Norse heritage will be celebrated in a blaze of glory at the town’s Up Helly Aa. Almost 1,000 guizers, or warriors, in full Viking dress of helmets and shields ...
Video Location: Lerwick, Shetland, Scotland, UK Video Recording Date/Time: January 28, 2025 Shetland celebrated its famous Up Helly Aa fire festival, honoring its Norse heritage, on Tuesday ...
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 ...
Over a thousand people dressed in custom Viking suits and wielded axes, swords and torches as they marched through Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly islands, culminating in ...
The broch - a sophisticated type of stone-built round house found only in Scotland - has evidence of settlement spanning over ...
Thousands of people travel from all over the world to watch the processions in Lerwick on the Scottish island of Shetland. The main group is the Jarl Squad, led by a chief called the Guizer Jarl.
Visitors from around the world travel to Lerwick to watch the torchlit procession ... continue until at least 7am the following morning. Shetland and neighbouring Orkney were ruled by the Norse ...