‘It feels like the edge of the world’ — when Jackie Bird was banished to the Shetland Islands on Hogmanay
29 December 2017
This year she’s cosy in the Old Fruitmarket – perhaps a wee glass of fizz in hand – welcoming in 2018 in the company of Phil Cunningham and Aly Bain, among other top musical talent.
But 18 years ago, while we were celebrating the arrival of the new millennium, the Reporting Scotland presenter was put the the test when she was dispatched to Britain’s most northerly inhabited island, Unst.
Millennium Hogmanay from Unst
Jackie Bird braves the weather to broadcast from the edge of the UK.
Rediscover BBC Scotland’s most popular features from 2017
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The Garden of Cosmic Speculation: The Dumfriesshire landscape that is out of this world
The Garden of Cosmic Speculation near Dumfries opens to the public once a year
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Four innocent people. Four life sentences. Four incredible and traumatic stories.
Step inside the minds of four people who, collectively, spent 73 years behind bars for crimes they didn’t commit
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The ‘ghost village’ of Polphail
Built for an oil boom that never arrived, Polphail is Scotland’s ghost town.
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Mel Young has saved the world billions and won a host of prestigious awards — so why isn’t he famous?
He co-founded the Homeless World Cup and it’s impact on people’s lives has been staggering
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Science can now explain how daredevil Danny MacAskill gets his body and bike to combine in defiance of gravity
Riding a bike is a skill that most of us master when we’re young
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You might be surprised how Irvine’s abandoned science centre looks 14 years after closing
Abandoned Scotland went to find out how it looks now...
