{"id":665683,"date":"2025-12-31T23:44:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665683\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T23:44:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T23:44:16","slug":"new-years-eve-live-uk-getting-ready-to-welcome-in-2026-with-major-firework-displays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/665683\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Eve live: UK getting ready to welcome in 2026 with major firework displays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First European countries ring in new year &#8211; as over 30 countries welcome 2026published at 22:00 GMT<\/p>\n<p>22:00 GMTBreaking<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-kkut0v-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/a4f01bf1-2a27-4680-9efd-3d77f82a68f5.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Matt Spivey<\/strong><br \/>Live editor<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the London newsroom, we&#8217;re eagerly anticipating the new year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But in other parts of Europe, it&#8217;s already struck midnight &#8211; and with that, 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">Greece, Romania, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania<\/b> have all marked the end of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We have live images from around the world, including Kyiv and Athens, <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">watch live<\/b> above.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As well as the first trove of countries in Europe, parts of <b class=\"ssrcss-cgjb6m-Keyword e2vephq0\">South Africa (including Johannesburg), Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Zimbabwe, Lebanon and Cyprus <\/b>are among a large swathe of over 30 countries who have welcomed in the new year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"First European countries ring in new year &#8211; as over 30 countries welcome 2026published at 22:00 GMT 22:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5018,3,4],"tags":[748,393,4884,1144,712,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-665683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-britain","8":"category-uk","9":"category-united-kingdom","10":"tag-britain","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-northern-ireland","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115816842339794342","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}