VIKINGS led by the god Thor and King Canute will be invading the Yorkshire coast on New Year’s Eve for the Flamborough Fire Festival. The village will be a blaze of celebration with a longship ...

The Fire Festival - held for the fifth time in the East Yorkshire coastal village of Flamborough - celebrates its Viking heritage. The fiery party also saw a group of Viking enactors in costume ...

Forecasts for heavy rain did not deter a horde of Vikings descending on the east coast village of Flamborough, near Bridlington, for a New Year’s Eve celebration like no other. Thousands turned ...

This year’s Flamborough Fire Festival promises to be the most spectacular ever, with two thousand flaming torches and the burning of a Viking longship. The festival, now in its fifth year ...

The fourth Flamborough Fire festival is promising to be bigger and better than ever as they prepare to set alight a full Viking long ship in a “sea of flames” at the New Festival Arena.

A warm-up at 7pm will see the Volsung Vikings, led by Jarl Thorstein Oxleg, re-enact their AD 850 invasion of Flamborough. The festival concludes with a final fireworks spectacular at 10pm.

More than 1,000 people are expected to take part in a torch-lit procession through the village Hundreds of people are set to take part in a torch-lit Viking procession later as part of ...