97 m. ago Happy New Year! UK rings in 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display as tens of thousands flock to...

Happy New Year! UK rings in 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display as tens of thousands flock to...  Daily Mail

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1 hour ago New Year latest: UK welcomes 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display in London

New Year latest: UK welcomes 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display in London  Sky NewsUK welcomes new year with celebrations across the country  BBC2026 London fireworks: 'A very British way to welcome in the new year'  Sky News

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2 h. ago Happy New Year! UK ushers in 2026 with spectacular fireworks display in London

Britain rings in 2026 with big celebrations in London and Edinburgh

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3 h. ago In pictures: Manchester welcomes 2026 with a bang as tens of thousands watch huge firework display

There was a party atmosphere in St Peter's Square

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3 h. ago Happy New Year! UK ushers in 2026 with spectacular firework display in London

Britain rings in 2026, with big celebrations in London and Edinburgh

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3 h. ago Happy New Year! UK rings in 2026 with Europe's biggest firework display as tens of thousands flock to London for 'best of British' show on Thames 

LIVEBLOG: Follow New Year's Eve celebrations across the globe as nations around the world throw parties to toast the final hours of the year before ushering in 2026.

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3 h. ago New Year's Eve London fireworks spectacular rings in 2025 despite controversy

A dazzling firework display has lit up the skies above London but only after the controversial closure of park where thousands usually watch

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3 h. ago New Year's Eve London fireworks spectacular rings in 2025 after controversy

A dazzling firework display has lit up the skies above London but only after the controversial closure of park where thousands usually watch

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5 h. ago UK prepares to usher in New Year as crowds brave cold to gather in London

Firework displays are taking place across the country to see in 2026

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8 h. ago The NYE countdown begins: Britain prepares to welcome in 2026 in style as tens of thousands flock to London to watch Big Ben ring in the New Year with spectacular firework display on the Thames

Swathes of the capital are now closed off to the public for the spectacular annual show on the Thames.

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15 h. ago My big night out: I realised I could leave the house party behind – and everything else that made me feel small

It was New Year’s Eve and there had been fireworks, drinking and dancing. Amid it all, I felt ashen and cold. As I walked out, I felt my first surge of quiet liberationWe drove out along the coast one afternoon, to a fireworks shop a couple of towns along. It was late in the year, and the light was low and dismal, rain scudding the windscreen. In a couple of days’ time it would be New Year’s Eve, and then our small town would scatter itself to parties held in bars and houses and nightclubs, and out along the harbour. At midnight, there would be an amateur firework display on the roof of the old lido.In the shop that afternoon, some of the fireworks sat behind a glass-fronted cabinet. They had names like Stinging Bees, Vendetta and Sky Breaker, and beneath each item was a small laminated caption: “One hundred shot roman candle firing high whistling bees,” read one. “Twenty-five secs of time rain salutes. Noisy,” read another. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago New Year's Eve LIVE: London prepares firework display as global events cancelled

Thousands of revellers all over the globe look set to celebrate the start of 2026, as officials in London keep a close eye on weather conditions for this evening

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2 w. ago Libya looks to its past to build a new future as national museum reopens

It is hoped the institution can help foster new bonds in a fractured nation, but such optimism will be a stretch for someIt was a night at the museum like no other. As the staccato sound of firecrackers and explosions rang out across Martyr’s Square in the heart of Tripoli, for once it was not Libya’s militias battling it out for a larger stake in the country’s oil economy, but a huge firework display celebrating the reopening of one of the finest museums in the Mediterranean.The National Museum of Libya – housing Africa’s greatest collection of classical antiquities in Tripoli’s historic Red Castle complex – had been closed for nearly 14 years due to the civil war that followed the former dictator Muammar Gaddafi’s downfall. Its ceremonial reopening came at the climax of a lavish show compressing Libya’s rich history and attended by diplomats and Arab celebrities, with a full-size Italian orchestra, acrobats, dancers, arches of fire and lights projected on to the fort. It did not l...

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3 w. ago California teen killed during backyard firework display after device he was handling exploded

California authorities found a dangerous, illegal 357-shot ‘Cash Game 357’ firework, but its role in the blast is unclear

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4 w. ago Ajax forced to replay abandoned clash behind closed doors with terminally ill fan denied dying wish to attend

A TERMINALLY ill fan was denied his dying wish to watch Ajax play one final time. The supporter, whose name is Peter, was in attendance for their home clash with Groningen on Saturday. https://www.facebook.com/Footballhomeandaway/posts/1410269127127470 But the match was called off after just six minutes following a huge firework display which sparked safety concerns. The game...

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