The Latest Breaking News from Lerwick

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

The festival dates to the 19th century.

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

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.

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…

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…

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

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