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Foula: Our remote island celebrates New Year on 13 January

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Foula is about 16 miles from the Shetland mainland and lays claim to being Britain 's most remote inhabited island.

The remote isle never fully adopted the modern Gregorian calendar, preferring to follow some of the Julian calendar.

Islanders celebrate Christmas on 6 January rather than 25 December , and New Year's Day on 13 January .

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informal

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English

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31

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