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New Year celebrations: UK welcomes in 2019 | |
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The UK has welcomed in 2019 with a flurry of new year fireworks. | |
In London, Big Ben's customary bongs marked midnight, with an estimated 100,000 people watching from the banks of the Thames. | |
London mayor Sadiq Khan said the city was sending a message across the globe that its EU citizens were Londoners and would always be welcome. | |
In Edinburgh, Franz Ferdinand were the headline act for the Hogmanay concert, with 60,000 tickets sold. | |
Cardiff saw crowds gather in the city's Winter Wonderland outside the Civic Centre for fireworks and music, while in Belfast, City Hall was illuminated in a raft of colours for the event. | |
Scotland's Hogmanay events kicked off with pipe, drum and dance bands leading the annual Torchlight Procession through Edinburgh. | |
Aberdeen, Inverness and Stirling were among the other places throwing big New Year shindigs. | |
Meanwhile, cities around the world had already enjoyed sparkling events for the start of 2019. | |
Islands in the Pacific were the first to mark the occasion, ahead of New Zealand and then Australia - where a massive fireworks display lit up Sydney Harbour Bridge for spectators on boats. | Islands in the Pacific were the first to mark the occasion, ahead of New Zealand and then Australia - where a massive fireworks display lit up Sydney Harbour Bridge for spectators on boats. |
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