The streets of a tiny Scottish town have once again been filled with fire and smoke as hundreds take part in a historic Viking festival. Up Helly Aa in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands, is held on the ...

Over a thousand people dressed in custom Viking suits and wielded axes, swords and torches as they marched through Lerwick in the Shetland Islands, the UK's most northerly islands, culminating in the ...

A police officer with more than 20 years of experience and who has served at Old Firm matches in Glasgow has come to the ...

Residents on a remote Scottish island have been celebrating an old Viking fire festival. More than a thousand people, dressed as Vikings, marched through the town of Lerwick, in the Shetland Islands, ...

Watch live coverage of the annual Viking festival ‘Up Helly Aa’ in Scotland, showing the torchlit evening procession and galley burning in Lerwick on the Shetland Islands.