Up Helly Aa from Upholiday, the lowland Scots word for Twelfth Day, and was brought by them to the Shetland Islands in the 19th century. There is a main guizer who is dubbed the "Jarl". There is a committee which a person must be part of for 15 years before one can be a jarl, and only one person is elected to this committee each year. The procession culminates in the torches being thrown into a replica Viking longship or galley. The event happens all over Shetland and is currently celebrated at ten locations – Scalloway, Lerwick, Nesting and Girlsta, Uyeasound, Northmavine, Bressay,
2017 Shetland Islands Council election candidates for the Conservatives also stood. 2017 Shetland Islands Council election Elections to Shetland Islands Council will be held on 4 May 2017 on the same day as the other Scottish local government elections. The election will be the third using seven wards created as a results of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004, each ward electing three or four Councillors using the single transferable vote system a form of proportional representation, with 22 Councillors elected. With the Shetland South ward going uncontested, the SNP elected its first councillor in Shetland. Several members of the pro-Shetland Autonomy Wir Shetland group