Up Helly Aa: I travelled 10,000 miles from Australia to come to Shetland’s famous fire festival
This year's highly-anticipated event has drawn people in from across the world.
Last year's festival
Up Helly Aa: Flames soar into the cold Shetland night as thousands watch the famous burning of the galley
Thousands lined the streets near the burning site including BBC Springwatch's Kate Humble.
‘It’s inevitable a woman will become Jarl’: One of Up Helly Aa’s first female guizers hails 2024’s history-making Jarl Squad
Four women will take part in Up Helly Aa's Jarl Squad for the first time.
Up Helly Aa tourists say travel chaos hasn’t put a dampener on ‘fantastic’ fire festival
Flights were grounded and ferries cancelled on Wednesday due to a yellow weather warning for high winds.
Up Helly Aa: Meet this year’s Guizer Jarl who will lead the first-ever female-participating squad
Richard Moar, an engineer from Shetland, is this year's Guizer Jarl.
Up Helly Aa: Revellers brave yellow wind warning as they head home after partying all night
The Met Office issued a the weather warning making less than ideal conditions for getting home from this year's Up Helly Aa.
Opinion
Roseanne Watt: Up Helly Aa change reflects centrality of women within Shetland’s culture
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Up Helly Aa: Partygoers stagger through Lerwick after night of celebrations
Gallery: Up Helly Aa lit up by burning of Viking galley
Up Helly Aa brings ‘end of winter’ for Shetland couple who have not missed fire festival in 60 years
Up Helly Aa: What is the history of Lerwick’s biggest fire festival?
Up Helly Aa: We travelled 3,000 miles from Canada for Shetland’s famous fire festival
Gallery: Paintings of Up Helly Aa squads and festivals of years gone by
Up Helly Aa: Meet this year’s Guizer Jarl who has been waiting nearly 40 years for this moment
Up Helly Aa tourists say travel chaos hasn’t put a dampener on ‘fantastic’ fire festival
Up Helly Aa revellers stranded in Shetland due to severe weather
Up Helly Aa: Revellers brave yellow wind warning as they head home after partying all night
Up Helly Aa: Flames soar into the cold Shetland night as thousands watch the famous burning of the galley
Up Helly Aa: I travelled 10,000 miles from Australia to come to Shetland’s famous fire festival
Up Helly Aa: This year’s striking Viking galley revealed after months of construction work
Up Helly Aa: Fully booked Shetland businesses ready for tourism boom
‘It’s inevitable a woman will become Jarl’: One of Up Helly Aa’s first female guizers hails 2024’s history-making Jarl Squad
Up Helly Aa: Meet this year’s Guizer Jarl who will lead the first-ever female-participating squad
What we Learned….about bombs, bottles, Beyonce in Scotland and more misery for the Dons
Up Helly Aa: Revellers keep the celebrations going all night long
Gallery: Our best images from the fiery climax to Up Helly Aa in Shetland
Up Helly Aa: Shetland’s big day burns as bright as ever before after long three-year absence
Gallery: Our best photographs as Up Helly Aa celebrations begin in Lerwick
Up Helly Aa: Vikings take over the streets of Lerwick in packed morning parade
Up Helly Aa: Gothenburg-inspired Aberdeen FC galley to take centre stage in fiery Shetland spectacle
Up Helly Aa: More than 1,000 torches ready to burn bright for return of Lerwick fire festival
