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“ONE thing that always amuses me is that the only squad that doesn’t have fiddle box carriers is the jarl squad,” says accordion player Peter Wood, “so when it comes to Up Helly Aa you’re carrying stuff about with you for 24 hours, and you’re out in all weathers.”...
Organisers ‘blown away’ by the response
SHETLAND Islands Council’s (SIC) outgoing convener Malcolm Bell has hit back at a campaigner who has accused the local authority of breaching its duties under equalities legislation by hosting civic receptions for Lerwick Up Helly Aa. Scalloway resident Peter Hamilton is...
I have been reading with a lot of interest the current debate surrounding the Lerwick Up Helly Aa. As a woman who has never felt that her gender was a disadvantage to anything, who works in a predominantly male industry – agriculture - I am disgusted at the sexism and bias...
It appears that some participants in the Up Helly Aa debate appear to consider that the views of people who are not ‘Shetlanders’ are of less importance than those who are. Before briefly stating my views on the subject I would declare that I was born in Shetland 69 years...