49 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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58 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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74 m. ago London rings in 2026 with largest NYE fireworks display in Europe

London rings in 2026 with largest NYE fireworks display in Europe  BNO News

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94 m. 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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95 m. 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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97 m. 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 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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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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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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7 h. ago LIVE: Happy New Year as Manchester welcomes 2026 with stunning fireworks display

Thousands are gathering to party the night away

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7 h. ago New Year 2026 LIVE: London counts down to midnight as the world celebrates the arrival of the New Year

In London, tens of thousands will flock to the banks of the Thames to watch the mayor's annual fireworks display

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8 h. ago London New Year's Eve fireworks 'clarification' issued by Met Police after urgent warning

Primrose Hill in London normally attracts thousands of people to celebrate New Year's Eve and watch the fireworks display in the capital but this year it is closed

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10 h. ago New Year 2026 LIVE: London counts down to midnight as Sydney stages spectacular fireworks display

In London, tens of thousands will flock to the banks of the Thames to watch the mayor's annual fireworks display

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11 h. ago Sydney sees in 2026 with spectacular New Year fireworks display

Sydney sees in 2026 with spectacular New Year fireworks display - live  London Evening Standard

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12 h. ago Sydney welcomes 2026 with spectacular fireworks display as world rings in new year

Display follows more than 3,000 fireworks launched over Auckland’s famous Sky Tower as celebrations begin

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12 h. ago New Year's Eve: Sydney celebrates 2026 with spectacular fireworks as city ushers in new year after honouring Bondi victims

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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12 h. ago New Year 2026 LIVE: Sydney stages spectacular fireworks display as London counts down to midnight

In London, tens of thousands will flock to the banks of the Thames to watch the mayor's annual fireworks display

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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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