Cycling, storytelling and music for children will precede the Queen's Baton Relay as it travels through Shetland on Tuesday 1st July.As part of Culture 2014, actor Tam Dean Burn is following the relay across Scotland, endeavouring to read all 195 books and sing all the published songs of Julia D... Read more...
A "bigger and better" Fair Isle Festival will be staged in Lerwick town centre to coincide with the visit of the Queen's Baton Relay. (more…) Read more...
A baton relay is being held in Shetland as part of the Royal Voluntary Service in Scotland’s promotion of volunteering, ahead of the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. (more…) Read more...
Around 90 Shetlanders have now been chosen to carry the Queen’s Baton on the Shetland leg of its journey throughout the UK and Commonwealth. (more…) Read more...