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Outbreak on cruise ship leaves passengers sick with gastroenteritis

The ship was due to call at Lerwick in the Shetland Islands for the Up-Helly-A festival but this was cancelled because of bad weather

The Independent UK · Feb 2

In Pictures: Burning galley provides fitting climax to Up Helly Aa revelry

The celebration of all things Viking culminated in a harbour blaze at the Shetland festival.

Evening Standard · Jan 27

Scottish vikings march through the streets for Up Helly Aa festivities

Hundreds of vikings in Lerwick celebrated Up Helly Aa with a torchlit procession, ending with the ceremonial burning of a replica longship.

Euronews · Jan 27

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Crowds gather in Shetland for Up Helly Aa fire festival

The festival dates to the 19th century.

The Independent UK · Jan 27

‘It’s bigger than Hogmanay’: Shetland’s Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival

The raucous celebration of the new year and the islands’ Nordic heritage culminates in the ritual burning of a longship – and much drinking

The Guardian - UK · Dec 31, 2025

Scottish island lighthouse with links to Robert Louis Stevenson for sale for £350,000

The lighthouse complex was built by the family of Robert Louis Stevenson, and currently houses an artists’ residency

Evening Standard · Aug 26, 2025

Fury as cruise ship hit by sickness bug outbreak allows passengers out on Shetland town

Costa Favolosa passengers had reported symptoms of ‘mild gastrointestinal illness’

The Independent UK · May 30, 2025

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‘Shetland Bus’ convoy greeted with floating salute as it arrives in Lerwick

The ships followed a route used for covert missions during the Second World War.

Evening Standard · May 7, 2025

Norse code: Keeping the flame at the Up Helly Aa festival

The festival takes place in Lerwick, Shetland, on the last Tuesday in January every year.

Evening Standard · Jan 28, 2025

New Brics banking system would render sanctions useless, ex-chancellor warns

Lord Lamont of Lerwick warned that a rival payments system would be a ‘major threat to the Western-led financial system’ if it ever came to pass.

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024

Gimme shelter… how social housing in stormy Shetland was transformed by a modernist fleeing 60s London

Leaving forward-thinking Camden council in 1969 for the UK’s northernmost isles, the architect Richard Gibson built well-made homes for all in work that feels newly relevant…

The Guardian - UK · Aug 25, 2024

Sparks from the past: why we’re hunting through a century of data from Britain’s northernmost observatory

Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather map. The site became part of the Met Office network in 1921 and began regular meteorological and magnetic recording, which…

The Conversation · Jun 5, 2024

First girls join Lerwick’s Up Helly Aa jarl squad after male-only rule axed

Jenna Moar and three cousins will be first female full members of Viking-dressed squad that will lead annual fire festival

The Guardian - UK · Jan 25, 2024

‘The best thing about the No 50 is that it goes on a boat’: readers’ favourite UK bus journeys

From the steepest A-road in the UK to a stunning circuit of the Lake District, our tipsters share their best hop-on, hop-off road trips

The Guardian - UK · Nov 3, 2023

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Daily Record · Jun 25, 2023

RNLI lifeboat rescues stranded yacht during Shetland races completing 900th launch

The RNLI Lerwick Lifeboat was called in by the UK Coastguard this morning after the 12-metre Norwegian yacht stalled near Bressay marina.

The National (Scotland) · Jun 22, 2023

BBC Scotland weather map blunder gets basic geography completely wrong

BBC Reporting Scotland was left red-faced after an embarrassing blunder on its weather map …

Daily Record · Jun 22, 2023

Orca 'rams into fishing boat' off Scottish coast in UK first

Dr Wim Rutten had just set sail from Lerwick when the boat was rammed - believed to be the first such attack in UK waters.

The Guardian - UK · Jan 31, 2023

Lerwick holds Up Helly Aa fire festival with women taking part for first time

Viking-inspired parade returns to Shetland after pandemic break as ban on female participation lifted

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The National (Scotland) · Jan 31, 2023

Shetlanders explain the Up Helly Aa tradition – in their native Shaetlan language

THE I Hear Dee language project was formed to protect and promote the Shaetlan language, a variant of Scots native to the archipelago. The project…

Daily Record · Dec 16, 2022

Shetland author Ann Cleeves loses laptop containing next novel in Scots island snow

The novelist appealed for help after losing the computer, which she feared may have fallen out of her bag as she made her way through Lerwick in wintry conditions on Monday.

Chronicle Live · Dec 14, 2022

Vera author Ann Cleeves loses laptop containing draft of new novel in Shetland blizzard

Daily Record · Dec 6, 2022

Three guinea pigs found dumped in zipped bag filled with hay on Scots street

The animals are now in the care of the Scottish SPCA after being found at around 10am on Saturday, December 3, on a street corner in Lerwick, Shetland.

Daily Record · Nov 14, 2022

Desperate search for missing Scots woman launched as police appeal for information

Sharon O’Neill, 46, was last seen near the Northlink Ferry Terminal on Holmsgarth Road, Lerwick at around 7pm on Sunday.

Wales Online · Oct 25, 2022

Solar eclipse will 'eat' quarter of the sun this morning

Lerwick in the Shetland Isles is expected to have a good view, with 28 per cent of the sun obscured at mid-eclipse

Daily Record · Oct 22, 2022

Scotland will be best place to view solar eclipse next week

Lerwick in the Shetland Isles expected to have good visibility as the Sun is partially blocked out by the Moon

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