Anthony McElhone, 71, attacked two teenage girls in the 1990s in Shetland.

The town boasts a 98.7% cleanliness rate and beautiful beaches, yet remains one of the UK's least visited destinations given ...

Virtuosa has 18 decks and can carry more than 6,000 passengers The Shetland port of Lerwick has welcomed its largest ever cruise ship. Virtuosa is 332m (1,089ft) long with 18 decks, and accommodation ...

This will be a historic year for the event in Lerwick. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as ...

Viking descendants formed a torchlight procession before sacrificing a longship at the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. The festival, which began in 1870, celebrates the ...

Viking descendants form a torchlight procession before sacrificing a longship at the annual Up Helly Aa festival in Lerwick, Shetland Islands. The festival, which began in 1870, celebrates the ...

Anne Doull is busy in winter. Together with her parents Margaret and Addie, she owns 650 sheep in the north-west of Mainland, ...

LERWICK, Shetland Islands (Reuters) - Twelve hours by ferry from the Scottish mainland, hundreds of miles from Edinburgh and closer to Oslo than London, the windswept Shetland islands have their own ...

I was surprised that you can get a phone signal in the middle of the North Sea, but it turns out you can. Not much – maybe one or two bars – but still enough signal that, one evening in December 2023, ...