Londoners ushering within the begin of 2023 will take pleasure in a full fireworks spectacle for the primary time since earlier than the pandemic, the mayor has confirmed.
Sadiq Khan stated revellers ‘will probably be collectively once more on the banks of the Thames’ as Huge Ben rings within the new 12 months.
The plaza in entrance of the London Eye will welcome 100,000 guests, with tickets happening sale on Friday.
It marks one of many final high-profile public occasions making a ‘return to regular’ after the top of Covid restrictions and most official tips.
New 12 months’s Eve 2021, the primary iteration to happen through the restrictions, noticed the standard spectacle scrapped resulting from stay-at-home legal guidelines.
It was changed with a televised show of restricted fireworks, lights and drones throughout numerous London landmarks.
The next 12 months was initially set to function an in-person gathering in Trafalgar Sq. however was cancelled simply days forward as a result of Omicron variant.
It was changed with one other crowdless fireworks show in addition to the largest ever drone present within the UK.
Pre-pandemic shows usually centred round a theme, such because the capital’s relationship with Europe or the centennial of ladies’s suffrage within the UK.
It’s not clear whether or not this side of the present will return this 12 months, though the mayor stated there can be ‘updates’ on what will probably be featured.
Tickets will price £15, a steep improve from final 12 months’s worth of £10.
Mr Khan stated this was resulting from ‘larger organisation prices’ related to the bigger scale of the occasion.
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