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A remote Shetland island is celebrating its traditional New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world.
Foula - which is home to less than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern Gregorian calendar, preferring instead to follow some of the traditions of the Julian calendar.
So this sees islanders celebrate Christmas on 6 January rather than 25 December, and New Year's Day on 13 January.
"It is how we have always done it," one islander told BBC Scotland News.
A remote Shetland island is celebrating its traditional New Year's Day - two weeks after other parts of the world.
Foula - which is home to less than 40 people - never fully adopted the modern Gregorian calendar, preferring instead to follow some of the traditions of the Julian calendar.
So this sees islanders celebrate Christmas on 6 January rather than 25 December, and New Year's Day on 13 January.
"It is how we have always done it," one islander told BBC Scotland News.