40 m. ago New Year's Eve LIVE: London fireworks mark 2026 as New York prepares huge celebration

New Year's Eve LIVE: London fireworks mark 2026 as New York prepares huge celebration  Daily Express

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50 m. ago New Year’s Eve live: fireworks in London, Paris, Berlin and Rome as 2026 begins

Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new yearSydney is the self-appointed “world capital of new year’s eve” and arguably rightly so. As always, eyes will be on the Opera House at 13:00 GMT when fireworks will light up the sky in spectacular fashion. But there are also huge crowds out in Melbourne to see off the year in style.Thousands of people are expected to descend on Melbourne this evening to celebrate NYE. There will be two 7 minute firework displays and light shows tonight, first a family one at 9.30pm for young children, and the main one at the stroke of midnight. Continue reading...

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55 m. 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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64 m. 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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1 hour 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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1 hour 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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1 hour ago New Year’s Eve live: fireworks in Paris, Berlin and Rome as European nations greet 2026

Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new yearSydney is the self-appointed “world capital of new year’s eve” and arguably rightly so. As always, eyes will be on the Opera House at 13:00 GMT when fireworks will light up the sky in spectacular fashion. But there are also huge crowds out in Melbourne to see off the year in style.Thousands of people are expected to descend on Melbourne this evening to celebrate NYE. There will be two 7 minute firework displays and light shows tonight, first a family one at 9.30pm for young children, and the main one at the stroke of midnight. Continue reading...

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1 hour 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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1 hour 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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2 h. ago New Year's Eve LIVE: London fireworks police warning as Sydney and Paris celebrations cancelled

New Year's Eve LIVE: London fireworks police warning as Sydney and Paris celebrations cancelled  The Mirror

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2 h. ago New Year's Eve LIVE: World celebrates start of 2026 with spectacular firework displays

New Year's Eve LIVE: World celebrates start of 2026 with spectacular firework displays  Daily Express

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3 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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3 h. ago New Year’s Eve live: Dubai sees in 2026 with dazzling fireworks display as countries welcome new year

Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new yearSydney is the self-appointed “world capital of new year’s eve” and arguably rightly so. As always, eyes will be on the Opera House at 13:00 GMT when fireworks will light up the sky in spectacular fashion. But there are also huge crowds out in Melbourne to see off the year in style.Thousands of people are expected to descend on Melbourne this evening to celebrate NYE. There will be two 7 minute firework displays and light shows tonight, first a family one at 9.30pm for young children, and the main one at the stroke of midnight. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago The incredible firework displays taking place around the world as 2026 is welcomed in

Incredible firework displays have already taken place in Australia, India, and China

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6 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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9 h. ago New Year’s Eve live: Sydney fireworks ring in 2026 as Asia sees in the new year ahead of Europe and the US

Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new yearSydney is the self-appointed “world capital of new year’s eve” and arguably rightly so. As always, eyes will be on the Opera House at 13:00 GMT when fireworks will light up the sky in spectacular fashion. But there are also huge crowds out in Melbourne to see off the year in style.Thousands of people are expected to descend on Melbourne this evening to celebrate NYE. There will be two 7 minute firework displays and light shows tonight, first a family one at 9.30pm for young children, and the main one at the stroke of midnight. Continue reading...

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11 h. ago New Year's Eve LIVE: London fireworks warning as Sydney and Paris cancel 2026 celebrations

New Year's Eve LIVE: London fireworks warning as Sydney and Paris cancel 2026 celebrations  Daily Express

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12 h. ago New Year’s Eve live: Sydney fireworks ring in 2026 as the world prepares t o see in the new year

Join our live coverage as we cross the globe to enter the new yearSydney is the self-appointed “world capital of new year’s eve” and arguably rightly so. As always, eyes will be on the Opera House at 13:00 GMT when fireworks will light up the sky in spectacular fashion. But there are also huge crowds out in Melbourne to see off the year in style.Thousands of people are expected to descend on Melbourne this evening to celebrate NYE. There will be two 7 minute firework displays and light shows tonight, first a family one at 9.30pm for young children, and the main one at the stroke of midnight. Continue reading...

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13 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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16 h. ago New Year's Eve live: Watch live from London fireworks celebration as UK welcomes in 2026

New Year's Eve live: Watch live from London fireworks celebration as UK welcomes in 2026  BBC

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