David Nikel is a travel writer covering cruising and Scandinavia. This sandbar connecting St Ninian's Isle with the mainland of the Shetland Islands off the north of ... [+] Scotland is one of ...

Residents of Shetland in the UK celebrate their Viking heritage at the Up Helly Aa fire festival, held in Lerwick.

It also highlights the annual Up Helly Aa fire festival as one of the reasons to visit Shetland ... by the island's rugged beauty and welcoming locals." It said visitors to Shetland would be ...

EDITH Beattie celebrated her 100th birthday today (Thursday) with a visit from Lord Lieutenant Lindsay Tulloch and a birthday ...

The Shetland Islands are Scotland’s northernmost isles; the nearest city is Bergen in Norway, not Inverness. During ‘Simmer Dim’, the long twilight hours of midsummer, the sun barely sets on ...

With no intensive care unit on the island the RAF ... another came from a Shetland tradition known as a ‘birthday bus’ where a group hire a minibus and travel between rural pubs for the ...

The proposed tunnels could transform the social and economic landscapes of Shetland and Orkney, two extremely isolated ...

The streets of Lerwick are once again filled with fire and smoke as Shetland holds its world famous Up Helly Aa fire festival ...

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THE COUNCILS in Shetland, Orkney and the Western Isles have appointed a consultant to investigate the feasibility of a ...