Kamis, 31 Desember 2020

UK welcomes New Year with drone display, fireworks and indoor parties - Metro.co.uk

London's drone display
The UK has kicked off the New Year with a futuristic drone display (Picture: Getty; Reuters)

London has bid farewell to 2020 with a futuristic drone display, which highlighted key moments from the year the pandemic changed the world.

The pre-recorded display, which was filmed during the early hours of Tuesday, saw the NHS enclosed in a heart, Black Lives Matter fists raised into the air and Sir Captain Tom Moore’s created out of light.

As Big Ben rang out to signal the start of the New Year, the drones formed a giant 2021 and fireworks went off by the Millenium Dome.

A male voice could then be heard reciting a poem that began: ‘In the year of 2020 a new virus came our way. We knew what must be done, and so to help we hid away.

Drone display still
An ode to the failures of 2020 (Picture: BBC)

‘Old habits became extinct and they made way for the new. And every simple act of kindness was now given its due.’

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In a nod to some of 2020’s failures, the drones also poked fun at the year’s endless Zoom calls, creating the words ‘you’re on mute’ above the giant image of a microphone turned off.

Captain Tom Moore
Captain Tom Moore, who was made a Sir earlier this year, was immortalised with drones (Picture: BBC)
Fireworks and drones illuminate the night sky over London as they form a light display as London's normal New Year's Eve fireworks display was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic. PA Photo. Picture date: Thursday December 31, 2020. Photo credit should read: Victoria Jones/PA Wire
A giant bird took flight shortly after midnight (Picture: PA)
NHs in a heaert
The NHS was placed inside a heart (Picture: BBC)

The display also featured the sound of the British public applauding NHS workers, clips from national news reports, and music by Stormzy and David Bowie. It ended with Sir David Attenborough calling for people to work in 2021 to help our ‘fragile’ planet.

The 10-minute show used more than 300 drones which were flown around the Millenium Dome after the annual fireworks display at the London Eye was cancelled. Last year, more than 100,000 people gathered around Victoria Embankment for the New Year’s Eve tradition.

This year’s display did not take place due to the virus, with three-quarters of England currently in tier four, which prevents people from leaving their homes unless for exercise, work or education purposes.

Elsewhere in the UK, large fireworks displays were also cancelled in Edinburgh, Manchester and Liverpool in a bid to disperse crowds amid Covid restrictions.

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - DECEMBER 31: A man holds a sparkler in front of the London Eye, in what would normally be a ticket-only area filled to capacity waiting for the annual fireworks display, on December 31, 2020 in London, United Kingdom. New Year's Eve Celebrations have been curtailed in the UK this year dues to Coronavirus pandemic restrictions. With most of the UK in tiers three and four, socialising is off limits. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images)
The fireworks were smaller this year (Picture: Getty Images)
Police officers stand guard during the New Year's Eve amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in London, Britain December 31, 2020. REUTERS/Simon Dawson
The streets looked empty in London this evening (Picture: Reuters)
Police officers and stewards mingle with members of the public at Piccadilly Circus in a near-deserted London on New Year's Eve, December 31, 2020, as authorities in the Tier 4 city hope the message to stay at home is obeyed. (Photo by Tolga Akmen / AFP) (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images)
Coronavirus has seen many New Year’s events cancelled (Picture: Getty Images)
Police officers speak to pedestrians near the embankment opposite the London Eye ferris wheel in London, Thursday, Dec. 31, 2020. The London Eye is one of the traditional sites for New Year's Eve firework display, but it has been cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions in place to try and stop its spread. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
Police officers speak to pedestrians by the London Eye before midnight (Picture: AP)

However several groups of people could be seen gathered on Primrose Hill in London to watch fireworks go off across the capital’s skyline, despite restrictions not allowing more than two people to meet up outside together in tier four.

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