Freda Leask News Today

NORTH American roots music has long been a mainstay of Shetland Folk Festival and the wider local scene. Saturday afternoon saw aficionados young and old...

Songwriter tells of ‘conscious effort to pull together Shetland and Barnsley’

ROAD policing motorcyclists were in Shetland over the weekend (16-18 June) and attended at the Simmer Dim Rally, which took place at Ollaberry. Officers spoke with over 150 motorcyclists over the days, as well as carrying out road safety patrols. A total of 30 other vehicles...

A list of Hogmanay events taking place throughout the north from the Inverness Red Hot Highland Fling to fireworks in Oban

BBC Radio Shetland is gearing up to host its annual Children in Need fundraising appeal on Friday night. The programme starts at 6pm when the pupils from Mossbank Primary School take over the airwaves to present Give us a Tune.  Then between 7pm and 1am traditional Shetland...

SHETLAND Folk Festival favourites Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards are back in the islands for two shows this month.  The quartet, who went down a storm both during their 2016 festival slot and on two subsequent visits, are returning to perform at the new Hymhus venue in the...

Welcome to Shetland News’ live coverage of the return of the Relay For Life - the huge fundraiser for Cancer Research UK. The event, which usually takes place every two years, has not been held since 2018 due to the Covid pandemic. The relay itself - where teams walk around...

The unmistakable smell of paraffin filled the air as a band of thirty Vikings lit their torches in the incongruous setting of a side street in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City, writes Caroline McKenzie. A small crowd of curious onlookers gathered, as squad members from...