WATCH: Nesting & Girlsta Up-Helly-A’ provides fine burning
Stars lit up the sky as the evening procession for Nesting & Girlsta Up-Helly-A’ marched towards the burning site – and what proved to be
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Talking Sport … with Jim Tait
It is difficult to know where to start when analysing Scotland’s horrendous start to the Six Nations rugby tournament at the weekend.
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WATCH: Squads perform at Lerwick Up-Helly-A’ 2018
Once the evening procession had been completed and the galley sent up in flames, the squads took to the halls to perform their carefully choreographed
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WATCH: X Factor’s Wagner does Up-Helly-A’
The rumours were true – X Factor’s Wagner is in an Up-Helly-A’ squad. The Brazilian musician joined Squad 29 ToXic Factor for the tour of…
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WATCH: Up-Helly-A’ 2018 – Shetland Times blog
Follow The Shetland Times’ unrivalled coverage of Up-Helly-A’ 2018
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WATCH: Lerwick crowds watch Kirkwall City Pipe Band at Market Cross
A crowd gathered at the Market Cross in Lerwick today (Monday) to watch a visiting pipe band perform.
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The Scottish Football Association has made an acute embarassment of itself over the knockback from Michael O’Neill, its preferred candidate for the international football manager’s
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Only in this week’s Shetland Times: Airports chief defends air traffic plans
See our exlusive interview with Hial’s managing director Inglis Lyon who speaks about the centralisation of air traffic control. Criticism has been levelled at the…
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WATCH: Crowds lap up Scalloway Fire Festival 2018
“Burn, baby, burn!” shouted a child, brimming with excitement, as flames began to roar out of the galley Jörmungandr.
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It came as a blow to the many who enjoy indoor bowls to find out this week that their hall at Clickimin will be unavailable
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Trained collie Ben is a life-changer for army veteran
An army veteran diagnosed with a psychiatric disability after serving at the height of the “Troubles” in Northern Ireland has had her life transformed for
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While we have no official “sports review of the year”, there have been several successes over the past 12 months which deserve highlighting again.
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The Shetland Sports Awards staged at Clickimin a fortnight ago once again honoured the achievements of our most successful competitors during the past year.
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The Shetland Sports Awards ceremony is a much bigger affair than back in 2007 when the inaugural event was held and runner Claire Wilson became
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