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NEW Year’s Eve just isn’t right without fireworks, whether it’s a low-key Catherine wheel in your garden or a powerful professional pyrotechnic production. So here’s the lowdown
If you want to celebrate the New Year with fireworks at home or watch the televised display from London, you need to follow some rules and guidelines or you could face consequences
But one of the most popular and low-effort ways to ring in the new year is to find a good spot to watch a fireworks display. The pyrotechnics that take place on NYE are often among the mightiest of the year, and are well worth a watch.
The fireworks in the UK will come before New York, which will join in the celebrations at 5am GMT on New Year’s Day, with performances by Diana Ross and Ciara. People queued around 6th Avenue hours in advance.
LONDON and New York welcomed in the New Year with spectacular firework displays as the rest of the world celebrated in style. A staggering 100,000 revellers watched on in awe in London as a huge
A dazzling firework display has lit up the skies above London but only after the controversial closure of park where thousands usually watch
On Tuesday, West Midlands Police had announced there would be “no official firework displays or city-organised events happening in Birmingham city centre on New Year’s Eve”.
National flags from around the world were shown with a voiceover declaring "this is what England means to me".
Uninhabited Baker Island is among the last to see the new year, as 2026 takes 26 hours to roll across the globe.
Britain rang in 2026 in spectacular style with enormous street celebrations and fireworks displays in London and Edinburgh.