New Years Pink Limousine

In Scotland it is customary to wait until the cannon is fired at Edinburgh Castle, this is a sign that the new year has begun.

There are also major celebrations across Scotland where it is known as Hogmanay. The traditional song Auld Lang Syne was written by Robert Burns, a Scottish poet. There are large street parties held in the major cities and Edinburgh and Glasgow are particularly renowned for their celebrations. The Edinburgh Hogmanay Street Party is attended by people from all over the world.

London's celebrations are the world's most covered, claimed by many to be the greatest public display of all the world's new year celebrations, with a £10 million firework display and pyrotechnics event, seen across the entire city. Since the construction of the London Eye, it has been the centre-point of a huge ten-minute fireworks display each year, illuminated with coloured lasers. At the start of 2005, fireworks were launched from the wheel itself for the first time.

Other large cities in Britain such as Liverpool, Leeds, Manchester, and Birmingham all have large celebrations.