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Up Helly Aa Viking festival squads open to women for first time

Women will be able to take part in squads at the main Up Helly Aa fire festival in Shetland for the first time next year, organisers have announced. The Lerwick Up Helly Aa Committee decided to relax the long-standing custom of only allowing males ...

22 Jun 2022 at 16:03

Author loses laptop containing draft of new novel in Shetland blizzard

Crime writer Ann Cleeves is appealing for help after losing a laptop containing the draft of half her next novel in a blizzard in Shetland. The novelist, whose books have been adapted into the television series Shetland, fears the computer may ...

14 Dec 2022 at 10:54

Shetland set for Up Helly Aa festival with women in squads for first time

Thousands of people are gathering for the main Up Helly Aa fire festival in Shetland, with women set to take part in the squads for the first time. The Lerwick Up Helly Aa Committee last year decided to relax the long-standing custom of only ...

31 Jan 2023 at 16:20

One dead after fishing vessel capsizes off Norway

One person has died after a Scottish fishing vessel with eight people on board capsized off Norway. The Norwegian Joint Rescue Co-ordination Centre (NJRCC) launched a rescue operation after the alarm was raised at about 1.39pm on Sunday. ...

07 Mar 2022 at 11:55

Company fined £80,000 after death of worker hit by forklift truck

A fish processing company has been fined £80,000 over health and safety failings following the death of an employee who was struck by a forklift truck. Karen Allan, 61, was run over by a reversing forklift truck after placing a bag of ...

26 May 2022 at 10:55

Scotland

Human remains found inside ‘small aircraft’ located in sea off Shetland

Human remains have been found inside the wreckage of a small plane recovered from the North Sea near Shetland. The aircraft was found at about 2.20pm on Friday in waters north east of Lerwick. The plane was brought ashore on Sunday ...

09 Dec 2024 at 10:26

Viking festival Jarl Squad includes female participants for first time

The key element in a Viking festival has embraced female participants for the first time. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick, Shetland, began in the 1880s but it only allowed women and girls to join the Jarl Squad and lead the torchlight ...

30 Jan 2024 at 17:20

Scotland

Man named after fatal Christmas Day crash in Shetland

An elderly man who died on Christmas Day following a two-car collision has been named by police. Harry Johnson, 84, from Bixter, Shetland, died in hospital in Lerwick after the collision on the A971 between Bixter and Treta ...

31 Dec 2023 at 16:58

Author’s laptop containing draft of novel found in snow

Crime writer Ann Cleeves, who lost a laptop containing the draft of her next novel in a blizzard in Shetland, said it has been found. The novelist appealed for help after losing the computer, which she feared may have ...

16 Dec 2022 at 13:07

Scotland

Commission to set out how renewables can benefit communities across Scotland

Scotland’s Just Transition Commission will today set out key lessons from Shetland’s experience of the energy transition which it believes can help shape fairer outcomes for communities across the country. In a new ...

24 Sept 2024 at 09:30

Company fined after worker seriously injured in fall from roof

A repair and maintenance company has been fined over health and safety failings after a worker fell from a roof, suffering serious injuries which left his life “irrevocably changed”. Thomas Marshall suffered a ...

19 Apr 2023 at 14:48

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

A convoy of ships that retraced a route used for secret operations during the Second World War has arrived in Shetland after sailing from Norway. The Liberation Convoy, which followed the journey made by the ...

07 May 2025 at 15:28

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