Shetland’s Up Helly Aa Viking festival reached its fiery culmination with a torchlit procession and the burning of a replica longship. For the first time in its 143-year history, women and girls ...

It is one of 12 celebrating the islands' Norse heritage, culminating in the burning of a replica Viking galley. Up Helly Aa is held on the last Tuesday of every January in Lerwick, the main town ...