{"id":662733,"date":"2025-12-30T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662733\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T15:31:13","slug":"smuha-jarl-squad-lights-up-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/662733\/","title":{"rendered":"SMUHA jarl squad lights up Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>THE 2025 South Mainland Up Helly Aa jarl squad helped to light up Edinburgh last night (Monday) to kick off the city\u2019s Hogmanay celebrations.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The squad \u2013 led by jarl Michael Farmer \u2013 took part in a parade through the Scottish capital alongside thousands of others, with many folk holding small torches.<\/p>\n<p>The torchlit parade was led by Hearts and Scotland goalkeeper Craig Gordon, who incidentally is said to have family links to Unst.<\/p>\n<p>Not just a one day affair, Edinburgh\u2019s Hogmanay celebrations includes music and comedy events tonight before the main party takes places tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Footballer Craig Gordon (second from right, front row) leading the torchlit procession through Edinburgh. Photo: Ryan Buchanan<\/p>\n<p>People were able to take part using small torches. Photo: Ryan Buchanan<\/p>\n<p><strong>Shetland News<\/strong> is asking its readers to consider paying for membership to get additional perks:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removal of third-party ads;<\/li>\n<li>Bookmark posts to read later;<\/li>\n<li>Exclusive curated weekly newsletter;<\/li>\n<li>Hide membership messages;<\/li>\n<li>Comments open for discussion.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you appreciate what we do and feel strongly about impartial local journalism, then please become a member of <strong>Shetland News<\/strong> by either making a single payment, or setting up a monthly, quarterly or yearly subscription.<\/p>\n<p class=\"row-text sign-in-message\">Already a member? <a href=\"https:\/\/account.shetnews.co.uk\/?redirect_to=https:\/\/www.shetnews.co.uk\/2025\/12\/30\/smuha-jarl-squad-lights-up-edinburgh\/\" title=\"Sign in\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Sign in<\/strong><\/a> to hide this message.<\/p>\n<p>\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/payments_horizontal_2.png\" alt=\"Payment methods accepted\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE 2025 South Mainland Up Helly Aa jarl squad helped to light up Edinburgh last night (Monday) to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":662734,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[202466,748,1102,4884,202465,712,202464,16,15,9987],"class_list":{"0":"post-662733","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-aa","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-edinburgh","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-helly","13":"tag-scotland","14":"tag-smuha","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-up"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115809241278062855","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=662733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/662733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/662734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=662733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=662733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=662733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}