New year celebrations in Scotland are an important part of the ... One of the biggest Hogmanay traditions is first footing. It is said that having a tall, dark-haired man as the first visitor ...

to the Scottish singing “Auld Lang Syne,” there's no limit to the number of ways people ring in the New Year, Hayes says, with many people creating their own personal or family traditions to ...

There is much more to New Year’s Eve in Scotland and parts of Northern England. One tradition that all three of the UK’s smaller constituent parts share is First Footing. The first person to ...

While some Scottish New Year traditions have been centuries in the making, the Loony Dook dates back to 1986 when a few locals decided to plunge into the icy waters of the Firth of Forth ...

How well do you know these New Year’s traditions - some dating back hundreds of years and many of them still carried on in the UK today? From China's Dongzhi festival to St Lucia's Day in ...