Scotland is a perennial favourite when it comes to travel. From its rugged and dramatic highlands to its vibrant cities and festivals. Considering its relatively small size, scotland really does punch above its weight when it comes to tourism. And this week were looking back at some of our favourite travel show adventures there, kicking off with the time i headed to shetland to experience something thats firmly based in the islands viking past, although a big change is under way. Sitting halfway between the scottish mainland and norway, the Shetland Islands have a unique combination of cultures. And today the sleepy town of lerwick is facing an invasion from a long dormant foe. Men shout the vikings. Cheering and shouting so this is up helly aa. Its one of a number of viking festivals that take place in shetland every year. This one in lerwick is the biggest. Up helly aa is best known for its night time procession. Almost 1,000 people carry flaming torches through the streets, then set
Details here on breakfast. Its sunday 3 march. Our top story The Chancellor, jeremy hunt, has tried to play down expectations about tax cuts in wednesdays budget, telling the Sunday Telegraph he has to act responsibly. With three days to go until mr hunt lays out his plans, the treasury says measures worth millions of pounds will be introduced to boost productivity in the public sector. Here is our Political Correspondent hannah miller. Police drones that can assess Road Traffic Accidents one solution chosen by The Chancellor as he takes an overview of the economy that doesnt make easy reading. But jeremy hunt says £800 million worth of Technology Like this will help to make police and hospitals more efficient and save almost £2 billion in five years it was time. Five years time. At a time when he has less money to play with them he would have hoped for, he is weighing up would have hoped for, he is weighing up what he can do to win votes. The chancellor is under pressure to make tax
Exactly, bbc one taken over for three hours. The only thing we would ever have in common withjoe rogan. Serious subject first. We have an inquiry out today, or the first part of an inquiry, that was looking at how Wayne Couzens, the serving metropolitan Police Officer who murdered Sarah Everard in 2021 in london, could ever have been a metropolitan Police Officer. What was it like for you, as somebody who has got political oversight of that force, reading that report . Because in every single page there was something really bad that had gone wrong over decades . Can i begin the conversation by speaking about sarah, Sarah Everard and her family, her parents and her siblings . It is important to remember her in the context of this conversation. I remember vividly the days after sarah disappeared because i live not far from where sarah disappeared from, and it was during the pandemic and my wife and daughters would go regularly for walks in and around that area. So it brings it all back,
70 years after independence, india is still a diverse, ever evolving assortment of cultures, creeds, religions and languages. Heading off the well worn tourist path, were on a journey which spans this vast subcontinent from east to west. Travelling from one of the driest places on earth. It is quite incredible, the sand. Its just crystal, hard cystals. White salt. You can probably taste it. To one of the wettest. These are areas really for the adventurous traveller. This isnt india on tap. Im on a quest to find out how history, religion and politics have shaped india. And also meet the people who call this intriguing and sometimes overwhelming country home. Its going to be an amazing journey. For thousands of years, india found its riches and influence through international trade. At the heart of this enterprise was the sea. And the state of gujarat, with 1,000 miles of coastline, served as a Shipping Gateway to africa, arabia and beyond. This is as far west as you can get in india. It