the shetland islands have a unique combination of cultures. and today the sleepy town of lerwick is facing an invasion from a long dormant foe, the vikings. so this is up helly aa. it's one of a number of viking festivals that take place in shetland every year. this one in lerwick is the biggest. up helly aa is best known for its night—time procession. almost a thousand people carry flaming torches through the streets, then set fire to a replica viking ship. a group of around 60 locals kitted out in elaborate viking garb. i mean, these this is serious stuff. who makes these? almost all that was done in shetland. and then there was a design committee and the squad. what kind of money are we talking for an individual kit? it's this kind of strange amalgam of scott and old norton. within the crowd, there are tourists from across the world. i live in a little town called vernon, oregon, in the middle of nowhere. so here i am, the middle of nowhere. i love your costumes. right. but fundamentally, this is a local tradition. there are rules for who c

partly this remoteness of shetland that has allowed for its many archaeological sites to survive over the centuries. there's over 5,000 years of human history scattered across the islands place to start. these ancient roundhouses are unique to scotland, and despite intense scrutiny, their origins are shrouded in mystery. and if you're planning to travel to shetland when the days are longer, then try to catch the annual boat race. the event sees sailors take to the waters to do what they do best, and compete against fellow islanders. this year, it takes place onjune 25th. well, do stay with us, because still to come on the travel show, after 35 years and 14,000 performances, we bid a fond farewell to broadway's phantom of the opera. here in shetland, the fires may have died down, but the night is reallyjust getting started. squads and spectators will come to public spaces, like this school, where they will refuel with some food, and let's face it, probably a drink or two, before heading on through for a bit more good old—fashioned viking revelry. around a dozen of these parties take place all around lerwick. we've got some vikings on the walls, in case you forgot where

cheering. ..i'm in another chilly part of the world — the shetland islands — to take in the famous viking, it's only now that women are welcome to take part. fire crackles. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would've done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. but that's it for now. see you next time. hello there. wednesday brought our first appreciable rain for some time. in fact, or eastern england, more rain than we've seen all february so far. but the other element was, of course, a cooler day. temperatures dipped from the 13 in harden on tuesday to just 8 on wednesday, which is about average for the time of year. and the change was due to a change in wind direction behind this rather raggedy looking weather front on our satellite picture, the north—westerly wind developed and that north—westerly wind is blowing our cloud away further south, although we've had

i'm in another chilly part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous viking festival's only now that women are welcome to take part. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello. we've a fair amount of cloud out there, a little bit of drizzle here and there, too. how about sunday overall? well, actually, for many of us, it's not looking too bad. a fairly bright day, not necessarily all that sunny but it will be generally dry — at least across england, wales and northern ireland. now, from the motion of the cloud, you can see the weather's coming in generally from the south—west. that's a mild direction, so it is mild out there. and notice this large area of low pressure just sweeping to the north of us. now, it's not mild everywhere — in fact, in eastern sc

cheering. ..i'm in another chilly part of the world, part of the world, the shetland islands, to taker 200 years, it's only now that women are welcome to take part. fire crackles. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would've done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello. wednesday was a much cooler day of weather across the country with temperatures dropping by around 5—6 celsius. for example, in aberdeen, we went from 13 on tuesday down to 7 on wednesday. but actually, that drop in temperatures represents something of a return to normal. you see, so far this month, it has been a very mild month indeed, particularly across the north of the country, where temperatures have been running 3 celsius above average so far this month. now, looking at the charts for thursday, high pressure brings sunny skies to start the day acro

i'm in another chilly part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous viking festivalears, it's only now that women are welcome to take part. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello there. claudia starts the week as well. was to love this weather front strung out across parts of scotland and bringing in some very wet and windy weather on the far north but the winds will continue to ease down through monday. the band of low cloud in the south to be can see something a cloud in a few spots of rain for northern ireland in northwest england. 0therwise, dry with a lot of cloud we're making some sunshine and eastern parts of england, very mild day in east anglia and 16 degrees and from the far north of scotland that the air would just be a bit colder. in gene

i'm in another chilly part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous viking festival's only now that women are welcome to take part. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello there. in the aftermath of storm 0tto, there are still lots of people suffering from power cuts, with aberdeenshire particularly badly affected. and of course it was aberdeenshire where we had the strongest gust of wind — a gust of 83 mph recorded at inverbervie. now, today's weather, for most of you is a cloudy day today. a bit of light rain or drizzle at times and mild, but for some across the hills of northern scotland, we've seen some snow overnight and at first this morning. so one or two of you waking up to a wintry start to the day. now, the satellite picture shows storm 0tto

cheering i'm in another chilly part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous vikingears, it's only now that women are welcome to take part. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello there, things and that is bringing with it some outbreaks of rain. the radar picture over the past few hours, you can see the extent of that rain, it has been affecting parts of scotland, there's been some heavy rain in the highlands, we could see some dribs and drabs of rain coming into parts of northern ireland. the heavier rain will move its way up towards the northern ireland through the rest of today and across england and wales it is likely to be dry, mild, some sunshine still across the midlands, east anglia and the south—east in particular. the winds are picking up,

i'm in another chilly part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous viking festivalnow that women are welcome to take part. this is an incredible experience. and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. more cloud around to start tuesday but certainly a very mild story. the cloud signal for light drizzly rain into than far north—west look at the temperatures fall dawn on tuesday. 6—9 , this is where we should be as a daytime maximum at this time of year. as a mild start but ray. cloud thick enough out west for a spot or two of drizzle, persistent rain moving out of the western isles and the northern isles but not as windy as we began on monday. so for the rest of tuesday it is likely we will continue to ca few holes in the cloud from time to time and where the best of the sunshine comes through

cheering i'm in another chilly part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous vikingars, it's only now that women are welcome to take part. this is an incredible experience. fire crackles and it does make you kind of feel like maybe this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello there. we're seeing a change to cooler weather on wednesday, even with some rain around as well. now, it has been really dry for many central and eastern parts of england this month. we started the week with temperatures as high as 17 celsius. but things are changing because we've got this cloud that's moving up from northern france to bring some showers, and that's ahead of this thicker band of cloud that's bringing the rain on that weather front there. that's going to continue to push its way steadily eastwards, and then following on from that, this is where w

stop paying for act of his scale. beside the $51000.00 tom vessel, which is on route to the shetland islands. it's a key piece of equipment that green p says will enable, shall to unlock 8 new wells in the penguins snorts the oil and gas field. business as usual came up, gone. when it went to re installation in a better planning, when it better distribution of energy, just consuming pumping out only helps the beak, billionaire fossil fuel companies. and it's true that we are in an energy crisis, but we are not in a production crisis. we're in a consumption crisis, and what shall is trying to do is to get rich, t lebanese and pays of entered the 3rd week of assess in protests inside parliament . and promising to stay put until the country's political paralysis comes to an end . and a new president is elected santa hud, a report from bay reach to members of parliament from the so called forces of change block have been camped inside lebanon's parliament building for 2 weeks pressing for the election of a president like much of the population there in darkness long power outages are one of many

start pain for activist scale the side of the $51000.00 ton vessel, which is on route to the shetland islands. it's a key piece of equipment that green p says will enable shell to unlock 8 new wells in the penguins, north sea oil and gas field. still to come on out is era. no masking its intentions in southeast asia, the u. s. proposed to beef up it's military presence. and the $100000000.00 loss claims of the greatest con in commercial history, aged to the stock market meltdown. ah hello, we still have some rather lively showers across northern parts of australia. rumbling away across the northern territory, easing back into queensland little circulation down towards a southeast as well as coming out of burst south australia pushing across victoria into tasmania. say some wet windy weather coming through here. let me go with those blustery showers down to southern pass lively tropical showers. further north and this where to weather. yes, i'm afraid it is making its way through the tasman eventually pushing towards a new zealand. so still a few showers there until the society victoria, just

cheering i'm in another chile part of the world, the shetland islands, to take in the famous viking festivalkind of feel like this is something the vikings would have done all those years ago. in the meantime, you can find lots of our recent adventures on bbc iplayer and you can check out our social media to find lots of great travel content from around the bbc. that's it for now. see you next time. hello. storm 0tto was the dominant force in our weather on friday. it brought some very strong and gusty winds to the northern half of the uk. a gust of 83 miles per hour on the coast of aberdeenshire. but further south, it was all about mild weather. temperatures at pershore in worcestershire got above 17 celsius, unusually mild for this point in february. that curl of cloud there on the satellite picture, that was storm 0tto, now quickly moving away eastwards. this is our next weather system that's been bringing some rain and indeed some snow in places through the night. ice likely to affect some parts of scotland as we start saturday morning. but much of the rain pulling away eastwards. a lot

sitting halfway between the scottish mainland and norway, the shetland islands have a unique combination, and today, the sleepy town of lerwick is facing an invasion from a long dormant foe. the vikings. cheering so this is up helly aa. it is one of a number of viking festivals that take place in shetland every year, and this one in lerwick is the biggest. up one in lerwick is the biggest. up helly aa is best known for its night—time procession. almost 1000 people carry flaming torches through the streets, then set fire to a replica viking ship. the day begins with a march through the town, led by the yahl squad, a group of around 60 locals kitted out in an elaborate viking garb. i mean, this is serious stuff.— viking garb. i mean, this is serious stuff.- who i viking garb. i mean, this is - serious stuff.- who makes serious stuff. yeah. who makes these? almost _ serious stuff. yeah. who makes these? almost all— serious stuff. yeah. who makes these? almost all of— serious stuff. yeah. who makes these? almost all of it - serious stuff. yeah. who makes these? almost all of it was - these?

in their s s shetland island, here is is they traditionally get drunk and horny.fter parties, all part pay lists filled with harry styles this year the women on the march, here they are posing in softest viking since kurt cousins. a viking longboat, set on fire with play. flaming to everyones. >> a art exhibit in argentina offers an experience through works of frida. it is unibrow art, telling life story ofs of the iconic painter, seth rogan's work is a journyo journthrough your suffering. ♪ ♪ here is one for you pervs, asking for a feet pick, weirdoes. her work didn't get much recognition. it is most valuable art sold at auction. second to this collect of blobs, painted by hunter biden. with his fluids. if you like you could enjoy hi experience by drinking a bottle of cough sir up. sire up. time for kennedogs. two dogs are better bet than one. meet el and milley. they are so lovable. love you. next lisa's pup winston and chief. they are ready to party. they want the chiefses to win. here are talk, they love each other. almost as much as they love tennis balls, lo

little about international news, and we invite you right now to know where far enough is to the shetland islandshey have forgotten with you, and let's see right now. here is one here in the scottish isles. yes, the north of scotland hosted the valhalla departure festival. this is the largest fire festival in europe and this year for the first time in history, and you know the history of the holiday is quite large 142 years lasts, as the procession of viking detachments was first attended by women and girls, the parade with fire torches of many thousands became the culmination the festival ended with a feast of the sea, where the participants threw torches specially built for this purpose by the viking boat. after that, it was time for parties, and all these were realized performances of the fire festival and so on. just maybe the icelandic islands, which played a significant role. vikings listen. how does it look, as if some kind of immersed in a very mature thing, but this is once again another confirmation to us that, after all, they have their own stories. you need to be interested, you need

start paying for activists. scale the side of the 51000 ton vessel, which is on route to the shetland islands to keep piece of equipment that green p says will enable, shall to unlock 8 new wells in the penguins, north sea oil and gas field. the protest as say, the carrying enough supplies to occupy the platform for days build a business. as usual, come up, gone. we need to re installation in a better planning in a better distribution of energy, just consuming a pumping. it also only helps the big billionaire fossil fuel companies, and it's true that we are in an energy crisis, but we are not in a production crisis. we're in our consumption crisis. and what shirley is trying to do is to get rich 111000 nigerians from the all producing niger delta, have filed a compensation claim against shell in the high court in london. the claim says oil spills from shells, operations in the niger delta, have destroyed farms, contaminated drinking water, and harmed aquatic life, resulting in the loss of livelihoods. this is the latest step in a case that we'll see if that multi nationals can be held to acco

from the shetland islands to county armagh, the brecon beacons and even as far south as kent and cornwallsince 2014 and is expected to peak in 2025, meaning more aurora displays are expected not only in the coming days but also the coming years. so, experts say, cloud permitting, people will have more chances to catch a glimpse of this natural phenomenon. amazing pictures. let's go now to alison, who is at an observatory in county durham for us this morning. i know it is getting out there but there have been some spectacular images, haven't they?— there have been some spectacular images, haven't they? they're really hard, images, haven't they? they're really hard. lovely — images, haven't they? they're really hard, lovely clear— images, haven't they? they're really hard, lovely clear skies _ images, haven't they? they're really hard, lovely clear skies here - images, haven't they? they're really hard, lovely clear skies here at - hard, lovely clear skies here at grassholme observatory. it is one of those places you come to see this guy without any light pollution. let's bring you into the

partly this remoteness of shetland that has allowed for its many archaeological sites to survive over the centuries. there's over 5,000 years of human history scattered across the islandsual boat race. the event sees sailors take to the waters to do what they do best, and compete against fellow islanders. this year, it takes place onjune 25th. well, do stay with us, because still to come on the travel show — after 35 years and 1a,000 performances, we bid a fond farewell to broadway's phantom of the opera. here in shetland, the fires may have died down, but the night is really just getting started. squads and spectators will come to public spaces, like this school, where they will refuel with some food, and let's face it, probably a drink or two, before heading on through for a bit more good old—fashioned viking revelry. around a dozen of these parties take place all around lerwick. we've got some vikings on the wall, in case you forgot where you are. after the procession, squads of torch—bearers visit each hall to perform a skit, and with more than a0 squads to get through, the festivities stretch well into the wee hours, with a bit of ceilidh dancing thrown in for goo

the area it covers is western scotland including the islands, including shetland.tting for a new tv comedy series funny woman is based on a novel by nick hornby. let�*s take a look. i�*m curious. what makes you think i would allow the reputation of the network to rest on the inexperienced shoulders of a nobody from liverpool? nobody from blackpool. well, sophie is different. and maybe people from blackpool would like to see themselves - represented on television. never seen one of them eat. perhaps they shovel down the pies when they get home. no, no, they don�*t, no. they party all night with pop stars. see the redhead ? she went on a date with a beatle. no! yeah. he wasjust the drummer, though, so. we�*re joined now by two of the stars, arsher ali and alexa davies. good morning. thank you for coming in. alexa, you explain, there were references to blackpool, that is key to this whole storyline? yes. references to blackpool, that is key to this whole storyline?— to this whole storyline? yes, that is barbara 's _ to this whole storyline? yes, that is barbara 's hom

shetland and orkney. but it's across the west highlands and the north west islands in particular will see some very soggyurs. elsewhere across the country, generally cloudy , a the country, generally cloudy, a few spots of rain across western hills and coasts, but otherwise mostly dry and mild. this west, southwest , the wind bringing southwest, the wind bringing temperatures of 10 to 13 celsius, widely up and down the country. but it does stay wet across scotland, especially later thursday, overnight, eventually the rain turns misery , some clearer conditions into the far north. it'll be a few light outbreaks of rain pushing into western parts of england, wales, northern ireland, another cloudy night across the board and as a result, frost freeze. we start off friday in fact it's right really quite mild first thing friday 9 to 10 celsius in places but it's also grey and the lowest cloud will be over northern and western hills with further outbreaks of rain crossing scotland not as heavy or as persistent on friday and into the weekend , another spell into the weekend, another spell of rain for the far. b

shetland, but sunny spells. central and southern scotland cloudy and patchy rain or drizzle and heaviest across the southwest islandswest england and may be the hills of north—west wales. many are dry, but temperatures up to 16 degrees across parts of eastern england into the afternoon. temperatures above where they should be for this stage in february. further rain at times tonight to the north west of scotland, heavy bursts later in the night but many other parts will be dry and temperature is around five to 10 degrees as we start tomorrow morning. 0ne around five to 10 degrees as we start tomorrow morning. one of day tomorrow, the wettest weather will be to the far north of scotland, especially during the morning. cannot rule out some drizzle in the west, many have a dry day, some sunshine in central and eastern parts and north east scotland could hit 14 to 16 degrees again. hello. this is bbc news. the headlines... the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. thousands of ambulance staff in england and wales take part in fresh strikes amid a

we i just finished the first lockdown, and i spent my time on an island called hill say, which is there in shetlandly was camped down the the camped down in the past, the cliffs on the north—east coast of kate comes of scotland. and kate comes walking down we got walking down and yeah, we got chatting a few minutes. chatting for a few minutes. kate disappeared and after only a few minutes. and then came back about 40 minutes with about 40 minutes later with a bag fish and chips, her tent bag of fish and chips, her tent and two cans of beer, and asked if could for the night if she could come for the night next me and we just hit it next to me and we just hit it off and the rest is history. a bag of chips does chime. does not mean that kate does have having kate that having discovered guy on his walk that she felt that she wanted to be with him and walk with him. have you done a lot of the walking subsequent to that, when subsequent to that, even when even when were expecting the even when you were expecting the little there? yeah, little one there? yeah, absolutely . so, you know, when absolutely. s

wet weather arriving shetland and orkney but it's passage across the west highlands . the north the west highlands. the north west islandshe next 36 hours. i'll across the next 36 hours. i'll across the country generally cloudy a few spots of rain across western hills and coasts but otherwise mostly and mild. this west southwesterly wind bringing temperatures of 10 to 13 celsius widely up and down the country but it does stay wet across scotland especially later thursday overnight eventually the rain turns more showery and some clearer conditions into the far north, but also be a few light of rain pushing into western parts of england, wales, northern another cloudy night across the board and as a result frost free as we start off friday. in fact, it's ready mild first thing friday 9 to 10 celsius in places but it's also grey and lowest cloud will be over northern and western hills with further outbreaks rain crossing scotland not as heavy or as persistent on friday and into the weekend, another spell of rain for the far north. but eventually that clears to sunniest , albeit with chillier sunniest, albeit with chillier c

the "up helly aa" festival in shetland marks the end of the christmas season, with around a thousand people in viking dress coming together to celebrate the island's. i have always wanted to go and see that. - stunning pictures. i have always wanted to go and see that. it i stunning pictures. i have always wanted to go and see that. it of| stunning pictures. i have always. wanted to go and see that. it of a challenge last night. winds of 70 mph. the weather was not great. if you want some of the pictures, the flames at everything. they did well. the winds will be easing today. good morning. still pretty wild on the far north of scotland. but those winds for all of us will ease a little bit compared to what they are this morning. but for some of you, expect to take the waterproofs because they will be some rain at times. at the moment the rain is part of northern ireland, northern ireland and southern scotland. heavy, thundery showers. clearer skies and wintry showers in the far north of scotland. wintriness mainly on the hills. the winds will ease. southern counties will stay dry. maybe some patchy rain in the north and west of wales, north west m

the up helly aa festival in shetland marks the end of the christmas season, with around a thousand people in viking dress coming together to celebrate the island's the industry developed more fuel efficient aircraft. boeing estimates that the fleet of 747s has flown more than 12 billion miles since coming into service — that's the equivalent of more than 137,000 trips to the moon and back. thank you forjoining us today here at bbc news. stay with us. you can get in touch with me about any of the stories we have been covering today, you can do that on twitter. right now, from me, have a good day. hello. mild if rather cloudy weather to see out the rest of the week into the start of the weekend. it does mean with cloud at various levels in the sky, some nice sunrise and sunset views to be had. here is the big picture today. we have low pressure just moving outward scandinavia. this is what brought the strong wind is across northern scotland overnight and into this morning to stop those wins gradually easing. a weather front in scotland, northern ireland and northern england giving more cloudy skies and a chance of seeing some rain. elsewhere, main

shetland, deep area of low pressure pushing towards norway, bringing gusts of rain in excess of 60 mph. 40 mph because parts of scotland, northern ireland, northern england heaviest rain across the southern islandss the eastern half of the country, brightening from the west but sunshine and showers and the show is turning wintry of a higher ground of scotland and northern ireland. seven to 11 degrees, still not quite where we should be for this stage in february but with the colder air in place, a ridge of high pressure through tuesday night, wednesday into thursday, greater chance of frost are investing on thursday. showers across the south and south—east, gradually clearing. bright start in scotland and northern ireland but carding over later with further outbreaks of rain and temperatures more widely into single figures. we see the week out and going to the weekend with high pressure buildings are more dry weather again but temperatures will continue to slide all the way into next weather again but temperatures will continue to slide all the way into next week. we have been warned. thank you. take care. the red carpet was rolled out in london last night for the bafta awards. the big winners i