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Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland

Associated Press · 2d

Residents celebrate Shetland’s Norse heritage at Up Helly Aa fire festival

Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands,

The Scottish Sun · 1d

Spectacular Up Helly Aa fire festival lights up Shetland as thousands take to the streets in torchlit procession

THOUSANDS of Shetland islanders took to the streets last night for the spectacular Up Helly Aa fire festival. The traditional event celebrates the island’s Norse heritage and is annually

heraldscotland · 3d

Up Helly Aa: The story of Shetland's Viking festival

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

Europe's biggest fire festival lights up Shetland

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, celebrates Shetland's Norse heritage.

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UK: Up Helly Aa Fire Festival Lights Up Lerwick, Shetland

Shetland celebrated its famous Up Helly Aa fire festival, honoring its Norse heritage, on Tuesday, January 28. The event featured a torchlit procession and the ceremonial burning of a Viking longship.

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Sean Bean Teams Up With 'Shetland' Star in a Twisty New British Crime Drama in New Images

BBC has unveiled several stills from This City Is Ours, a crime drama starring Sean Bean and Julie Graham as a couple ...

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New oil and gas field consent was unlawful - judge

A court has ruled that consent for the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields was granted unlawfully and their owners must ...

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Sean Bean teams up with Shetland star on gripping crime drama

Directed by BAFTA award-winner, Saul Dibb ( The Sixth Commandment ), Sean, 65, will inhabit the role of notorious gang leader ...

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A daughter’s journey to Shetland - and the heart of her broken family

In The Shetland Way, author Marianne Brown likens the news of her father's death to the beginning of Joseph Campbell’s archetypal ...

Architects' Journal6d

Shetland architect Richard Gibson dies aged 89

Shetland-based architect Richard Gibson, famous for his remote architecture ‘characterised by care’, has died aged 89 ...

The Shetland Times55m

In this week’s Shetland Times

Please note, it is the policy of The Shetland Times to publish comments and letters from named individuals only. Both ...

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Thousands of drivers issued DVLA warning and must make 'one' phone call

Shetland Islands Council urged drivers to not make payments on fraudulent websites, as more and more road users are at risk ...

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