2 h. 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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3 h. ago Happy New Year! Britain rings in 2026 with dazzling fireworks display

Happy New Year! Britain rings in 2026 with dazzling fireworks display  Daily Mail

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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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4 h. ago New Year's Eve: UK gears up to celebrate 'best of British' after dazzling displays in Europe and UAE

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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5 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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14 h. ago Sydney New Year’s Eve strikes more sombre tone as fireworks follow minute’s silence for Bondi

Terror attack victims remembered with menorah projected on to Harbour Bridge ahead of traditional dazzling displayAustralia paused to show solidarity with the Jewish community as New Year’s Eve festivities rolled across the nation.Weeks on from the Bondi Beach terrorist attack, hundreds of thousands of people around the Sydney Harbour observed a minute’s silence and shone a collective, defiant light following the recent atrocity. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago UK recorded music market grows for an 11th consecutive year in 2025

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said British artists such as Olivia Dean and Lola Young led a British music revival over the past 12 months.

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53 h. ago Actress Meera Syal given damehood for services to literature, drama and charity

The 64-year-old is best known for her work writing for and starring in British Asian comedies Goodness Gracious Me and The Kumars at No 42.

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3 d. ago Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's fury as Keir Starmer welcomes freed anti

Writing in the Daily Mail, the Tory leader says Alaa Abd El-Fattah - whose arrival in the UK was celebrated by Keir Starmer- should be stripped of his dual British nationality and booted out.

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5 d. ago My weirdest Christmas: it was our first year in Sweden – but I insisted on having a big British celebration

When my family emigrated to Malmö, I wanted to stick to our traditions, but my husband was keen to embrace the local customs. Why were we butting heads?It was 3pm on Christmas Eve and already getting dark. As I stripped off on a wooden pier over the Baltic Sea in Malmö, Sweden, my husband and five-year-old boy, bundled up against the harsh wind, chanted: “Go Mummy, go Mummy, go Mummy!” Just as I was about to heroically slither out of my final layer, a bearded, completely naked man, who can only be described as Viking-esque, ascended the wooden ladder from the sea, looked at me with horror and possibly hypothermia in his eyes and shook his head. I put my five layers of clothing back on and, feeling deflated, suggested we crack open the Thermos. I knew I had failed at Swedish Christmas.My family and I emigrated to Sweden from the UK last winter, and while the days seemed impossibly short and dark, we were buoyed up by optimism, glögg (Swedish mulled wine) studded with almonds and rais...

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7 d. ago Timothée Chalamet shares his passion for 1 particular region of the UK — it's not London

Hollywood actor Timothee Chalamet has confessed to a 'comfort' habit before bed, admitting he dreams of living in the British countryside

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8 d. ago Inside Nativity's filming locations as Christmas film tops Netflix charts

Nativity stars a number of British stars including Martin Freeman, Shetland's Ashley Jensen and Celebrity Traitors legend Alan Carr.

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8 d. ago Kate Middleton and Prince William 'won't allow' George, Charlotte and Louis to eat with them on Christmas Day

Former royal chef shares the strict rules and traditions the British Royal family follows surrounding their Christmas celebrations including who the children dine with

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9 d. ago Golden Gate Park's dazzling holiday light display brings joy to the season

A new night-time holiday display in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park is delighting visitors with music, colors and over a million twinkling lights

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1 week ago Cannon and Ball Christmas special to air for the first time since the 1980s

TV channel That’s TV will also air the classic episodes in the future.

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2 w. ago Bondi Beach shooting victims in full including young girls and Holocaust survivor

At least 16 were killed and dozens injured in terror attack on Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, including a British rabbi and a Ukrainian Holocaust survivor.

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2 w. ago Bondi Beach shooting victims in full including 'Bubbly' British Rabbi and Holocaust survivor

At least 12 people have died in a horrific antisemitic attack as over 1,000 people gathered on the famous Bondi Beach to celebrate a Jewish religious holiday - one of the victims was British-born

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2 w. ago Celebrity Gogglebox fans only just realising where they’ve seen Tamsin before

Celebrity Gogglebox recently introduced several new cast members, including British actress Tamsin Egerton

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2 w. ago British TV legend confirmed as next star on Celebrity Gogglebox special

Kieran Culkin, Josh Hartnett, Joe Marler and Nick Mohammed have already been confirmed for the show

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