Viking descendants formed a torchlight procession before sacrificing a longship at the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. The festival, which began in 1870, celebrates the ...

Virtuosa has 18 decks and can carry more than 6,000 passengers The Shetland port of Lerwick has welcomed its largest ever cruise ship. Virtuosa is 332m (1,089ft) long with 18 decks, and accommodation ...

Viking descendants form a torchlight procession before sacrificing a longship at the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. The festival, which began in 1870, celebrates the ...

This will be a historic year for the event in Lerwick. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as ...

Rather than a hotbed of criminal minds, Shetland is Scotland at its wildest. From the ancient settlement at Jarlshof to towering sea stacks, Shetland rewards curiosity rather than speed. For years now ...

A 71-year-old rapist who carried out sex attacks on teenage girls in the 1990s in Shetland has been jailed for 10 years. Anthony McElhone attacked his victims at locations including Lerwick, Sandwick ...

I was surprised that you can get a phone signal in the middle of the North Sea, but it turns out you can. Not much – maybe one or two bars – but still enough signal that, one evening in December 2023, ...

LERWICK, Shetland Islands (Reuters) - Twelve hours by ferry from the Scottish mainland, hundreds of miles from Edinburgh and closer to Oslo than London, the windswept Shetland islands have their own ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. All my life I had been conscious of an ancestral connection to Shetland, but like many Australians of my generation, I had only a few ...

Twenty-five years ago, Pulp were at the peak of their fame and success. They had scored major chart success with some of the defining songs of the Britpop era, and had just played to 70,000 at T in ...