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Santa switches lights on as Christmas parade makes welcome return

December 4, 2021 1
Santa switches lights on as Christmas parade makes welcome return
Olaf even made an appearance, alongside Maunsie the Market Cross.

Santa Claus swapped his sleigh for the lifeboat today (Saturday) as he lit up Lerwick’s tree in the Living Lerwick Christmas parade.

Vikings, Olaf from Frozen, Maunsie the Market Cross and even a goat paraded through the street this afternoon before Santa had the honour of switching on the Christmas lights.

Excited bairns and families filled the route to wave him along as he signalled the start of the countdown to Christmas.

The event was returning for the first time since 2019.

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  • Peter Duffy

    • December 5th, 2021 10:24

    Really kind of sad to see even Shetland has adopted the North American name for Father Christmas…

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