The Red Apple Farm will be transformed into a Viking encampment of yore this weekend, as the family-owned orchard in Phillipston hosts its first annual Northfolk NightMarket: A Winter Festival event.

Vikings have arrived in York as Europe’s largest festival celebrating all things Norse returns to the city for its 40th year. Parliament Street has been turned into a Viking encampment ...

Vikings have arrived in York as Europe’s largest festival celebrating all things Norse returns to the city for its 40th year. Parliament Street has been turned into a Viking encampment, fit with long ...

On this day in 2024, it was reported that Viking horns had sounded in the centre of York as that year's Jorvik Viking Festival built to its climax. The Eye of York was the scene of a spirited battle ...

Islands is a holiday mystery that wrong-foots us with clever backhand. The twists are contingent on what characters assume, not what they actually know. It’s about a disappearance on ...

Tennis pro Tom lives in a mellow paradise teaching tourists at a hotel in the Canary Islands. “Permanent sun, permanent fun,” as one client puts it. But why does it also look a bit like ...

The JORVIK Viking Festival will return to York this February half-term. Five days of Norse fun are planned from February 17 to 23, with hands-on combat, lectures, a parade of Vikings, dramatic ...

Hundreds of would-be vikings will take to York's ancient streets throughout February half-term when JORVIK Viking Festival returns for another year. The festival will feature reenactments and ...

A number of companies plan to use SaxaVord Spaceport, on Unst in the Shetland Islands, as a launch site for commercial rockets. Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA), from Germany, is thought to have the ...

The UK's new spaceport in Shetland will be ready for satellite launches by July, MPs have been told. A number of companies plan to use SaxaVord Spaceport in Unst, the northernmost point in the UK ...

But the islands are also geographically and culturally close to Scandinavia. The annual Up Helly Aa festival, which takes place on the last Tuesday of January in Shetland's capital, Lerwick, is a ...