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Big Ben's famous bongs rang out at midnight as London welcomed in the New Year before more than 10,000 fireworks lit up the sky. More than 250,000 revellers were expected to flock to the city's landmarks while 100,000 ticket-holders were expected to watch London's New Year's Eve firework display from the banks of the River Thames.  After being silenced for renovation work, Big Ben's bongs rang out for only the second time since August to usher in 2018. But they will fall silent once again on New Year's Day at 1pm to continue ongoing crucial repairs of the Elizabeth Tower.

Boris Johnson possible Brexit job in New Year reshuffle

The Prime Minister (inset) is expected to offer Boris Johnson (pictured main) a role encompassing parts of the Business Department and major infrastructure decisions to prepare Britain for leaving the EU. Meanwhile Sir Patrick McLoughlin (top left) is rumoured to be getting the sack. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt (top centre) could be on for a promotion, joining Amber Rudd (centre right) in the Home Office as First Secretary of State. Greg Clark, Justine Greening, and Andrea Leadsom (centre left and centre right and centre) could be stripped of their roles, while Minister of State Anne Milton might be getting a chance at entering the cabinet. Brandon Lewis (bottom left) is being tipped as party chairman and Justice Minister Dominic Raab is also likely to get a promotion. At No 11 Downing Street, Philip Hammond (bottom right) is safe as Chancellor.

Families were left sat on buses for up to 10 hours with no toilets and scores of people stuck in Chambery Airport, France, as heavy snow caused roads to and from resorts were blocked.

Lancashire Police want to use the technology to deliver daily crime bulletins direct to householders about offences being committed in their area, wanted suspects and missing people.

George Papadopoulos told Australian high commissioner Alexander Downer about damaging information about Hilary Clinton while they were drinking in a Kensington wine bar.

A Daily Mail investigation reveals some UK executives could earn as much as £5.4million despite a year plagued by engineering works, poor service and terrible strike disruption.

Tim O' Toole's has a £1million three-bedroom waterfront mansion with a pool on the back terrace in Estero, Florida, where he was this week believed to be spending the Christmas holiday.

Industry figures reveal Britain's trains are 21.1-years-old on average, the oldest since current records began, Office of Rail and Road (ORR) statistics show.

The unnamed woman, who grew up in Cambridge and is now in her 50s, says her abusers targeted girls with low self-esteem.

Alicia Steward, 23 'snatched' a baby from its mother outside a hospital, Hull Magistrates Court heard. Steward had been released from a mental health unit the same day before grabbing the child.

Lauren's mother, Lisa Lees was one of the 22 victims that died in the Manchester Arena terror attack in May.

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An article on July 8, based on information provided by the Campaign against Anti-Semitism, reported that Islamic preacher Shaykh Ebrahim Bham had ‘compared Jews to fleas’.

New Year revellers hit streets in best party outfits

Party goers defied the rain and stepped out in their best outfits to celebrate the arrival of the New Year in style at events across the country with 150,000 filling the centre of Edinburgh for Hogmanay. Revellers saw in 2018 in the Scottish capital despite earlier concerns that Storm Dylan might threaten events. Londoners headed to the city centre to take in the traditional annual fireworks display by the Thames.

Dubai's New Year's Eve fireworks display was abandoned this year due to 'security concerns', with the United Arab Emirates city opting for a world-record breaking light display on the Burj Khalifa.

A barge loaded with fireworks has exploded in front of shocked onlookers at Terrigal, on the NSW central coast, forcing those gathered to watch the display to evacuate (pictured).

Police officers armed with rifles and sniffer dog units will be patrolling the streets of London tonight as 250,000 people flock to enjoy New Year's Eve fireworks at the city's landmarks.

A designated 'safety area' for women at Berlin's annual party (pictured) has been criticised by a German police union boss, who says it implies that women are no longer safe from assault elsewhere.

New Year celebrations in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia went badly wrong when an 80ft illuminated Christmas tree erupted in spectacular flames in front of thousands of revellers.

Capitals across Europe have welcomed in the New Year, with Berlin, Paris, Madrid, Rome and other cities celebrating the start of 2018. Other cities around the world have also held displays.

A new poll has found that 67 per cent of workers re devising an 'exit route' out of their jobs in 2018. The majority of those looking to quit said they were move to a different firm of find a 'completely new job'.

A Cambridge graduate and former business high-flyer, CLARE POOLEY tells how her breast cancer diagnosis nearly drove her back to the bottle after three months of sobriety following her 'addiction'.

North West London NHS Foundation trust has apologised to the smear test patient who had asked to be seen by a female nurse but was instead greeted by transgender worker.

British chef Tom Kerridge, 44, managed to shed a remarkable 12 stone over a three-year period, going from 30 stone to 18 stone. He managed to shed the pounds by cutting carbs and alcohol from his diet.

Horses evacuated from Liverpool Arena after car park fire

Firefighters are tackling a blaze at a multi-storey car park at the Echo Arena on Liverpool's waterfront. The area was evacuated, including around 80 horses taken to safety, as the Liverpool International Horse Show is currently on at the arena. A total of 12 fire engines are at the building at King's Dock in the city centre. No-one is believed to have been hurt and it is not yet known how many cars have been damaged. Sue Wright (inset, with her husband), the wife of former England captain Mark, told MailOnline that she was in a car with her husband and six children – their 12-year-old daughter, her two friends and the couple's three foster children – when a nearby vehicle (left) exploded into flames.

Social media is becoming a drug dealing hotspot for young people, experts have warned. Nick Hickmott, who works for Young Addaction in Kent, said the pattern had taken off in the past 18 months.

Employment tribunal claims increased in the months after fees were declared unlawful, the head of the conciliation service has revealed.

SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Kamal Ahmed woos millionaires

When glamorous newsreader Sophie Long (right) fell for fellow BBC journalist Kamal Ahmed (left), her friends hoped that she might have found lasting love, writes SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE. Sadly, their romance petered out last year, but £200,000-a-year economics editor Kamal, 50, has already found another striking blonde with whom to toast the dawn of 2018. She is Polly Glynn (also left), also 50, a human rights lawyer dubbed the ‘millionaire champion of travellers’. ‘They’ve been seeing each other for a few months,’ confirms a friend of the new couple, who are pictured at a party at the Royal Academy of Arts last month. Polly hit the headlines in 2015 when her firm, Deighton Pierce Glynn, was exposed by this newspaper for threatening to sue hospitals that refused to provide free treatment for migrants.

Pete Farmer, 45, served two years in al-Qanater jail in Egypt for theft, and has revealed how violence and disease were rife, while up to 30 people were crammed in each cell (pictured).

Stephen Searle, 64, a former Royal Marine commando, is being quizzed by detectives after Anne Searle, 62, was found dead by paramedics at 10.20pm yesterday.

The Duke of Edinburgh (pictured today at Sandringham) cracked the edgy joke as he led a procession of royals and guests on a walk to the morning service at St Mary Magdalene church.

Her Majesty, 91, and the Duke of Edinburgh, 96, were joined at church in Sandringham this morning by family members including Sophie and her husband Edward and Princess Anne.

According to a new study into the diet - one of the most popular plans in the world - there is a lack of evidence to support any claims that fasting can work in the long term.

As it stands the official documents only record the names and occupations of the fathers of the bride and groom. But the change will come into force in the New Year according to reports.

Theresa May's defiant New Year message was undermined by reports that David Davis told a private meeting it was still possible the decision to leave the EU could be reversed.

A fire has broken out on the ninth floor of a 12 storey apartment block in Manchester's Northern Quarter.

Charlotte Reat, 21, has been left devastated after her mother Jayne Toal Reat, 43, was repeatedly knifed at their home in Lisburn, Belfast in the early hours of December 25.

A ‘Dad's Army’ of unpaid border guards is set to be Britain’s first line of defence against terrorists, people smugglers and organised crime gangs at hundreds of vulnerable air and sea ports.

Simon Buzdygan-Neal, from Grantham, Lincolnshire, found the boy on the A43 (pictured) in Northampton and said he must have been aged between two and three years old.

Man has rape conviction quashed after police blunder

Danny Kay, 26, of Derby, who spent more than two years in jail for a rape he did not commit, had his conviction quashed after a relative uncovered a series of bombshell Facebook messages – missed by police – that proved his innocence. In the latest rape case to highlight failings in the criminal justice system, The Mail on Sunday can reveal that the jury at Danny Kay’s 2013 trial was only shown doctored transcripts of crucial Facebook chats between Mr Kay and his accuser. In an exclusive interview with the MoS, Mr Kay said archived versions of the original messages – proving he had consensual sex with his accuser – were found by his sister-in-law, Sarah Maddison (pictured left). When she showed the Facebook exchange to the officer in charge of the investigation, he said: ‘How did you know how to find the messages and we didn’t?’

Major John Chetty, 51, was censured by a Service Complaint Panel in 2014 over the abuse of Corporal Tom Neathway, 34, who was injured by a Taliban bomb in Afghanistan in 2008.

Asa Hutchinson, 21, from Chelmsford, Essex, could spend years behind bars over the fight between her friends and a drunk Swedish man in a Dubai hotel.

Sources claim that the cast 'refused to go on stage' after not being paid 'thousands of pounds', with disgruntled ticketholders only being informed of the cancellation when arriving at the venue. 

Nursery school teacher Jenny Redout, of Weymouth, Dorset, who feared she would never have children, is now celebrating after giving birth thanks to the last of 14 frozen eggs.

Hampstead ladies say swimming pond is not gender fluid

Now the famous Ladies’ Pond on London’s Hampstead Heath will no longer be a haven preserved for women after a controversial ruling allowed men transitioning to be women to bathe there. Regular users of the tranquil fresh water pond – used by famous names such as actress Helena Bonham Carter, comedian Rhona Cameron and novelist Esther Freud – have complained in recent months that men who identify as women and wore female bathing clothes were using the pond.

He recently shared his delight in visiting his home country Swaziland for the Christmas season, before heading to Cape Town. 

Jeff Fairburn, chief executive of Persimmon, will receive a staggering £132 million bonus after his firm made vast profits from the Help to Buy scheme which makes up 50% of the sales.

The psychedelic drug, once a favourite of the 1960s counterculture, is making a comeback among professionals in the UK who take small amounts in a practice called 'microdosing'.

Ursula Graham Bower, who was educated at the prestigious Roedean School in East Sussex, first visited the village of Laisong in Assam in 1937. Now a play about her life will be performed there.

This is not the first complaint about inaccuracy in the Netflix drama – starring Claire Foy and Matt Smith – which has so far followed the fortunes of the Royal Family over 30 years.

Alexandra Zurawaska, 16, was last seen at 7pm on Monday but has not been heard from since. Police asked for help to find the teenager, who is believed to be in the area of Sutton, south west London.

Families are turning to hot water bottles during the chilly winter months to save on heating bills, according to a new report. This month alone demand for the hot water bottle has soared by 80 per cent.

One ticket matched five numbers and the bonus ball to win £24,501,283 - the biggest Lotto prize of 2017. The top prize rolled down after no one matched all six main numbers.

The M25 cat killer, previously known as the Croydon cat killer, is being hunted by police for spate of killings across the country, including Surrey, Manchester, Sheffield and Birmingham.

THE WORLD AT A GLANCE
 

Iran blacks out social media as President Rouhani slams Trump in address to his nation after defiant protesters face water cannon and hundreds of arrests on the fourth day of demonstrations 

President Hassan Rouhani (pictured inset) has said Donald Trump has 'no right' to back demonstrators in Iran after earlier calling people there terrorists, as the Iranian authorities announce a blackout on social media. Iran shut down Instagram and anonymous messaging app Telegram on Sunday 'to maintain tranquility and security of society' as marchers took to the streets for the fourth day, with some lighting fires. Police responded with water cannon in a bid to disperse demonstrators who gathered in Ferdowsi Square, Tehran. Despite the online crackdown more footage emerged on Sunday showing demonstrations spreading to the cities of Sanandaj and Urmye in Kurdistan Province.

10 Americans killed when plane crashes in Costa Rica

The plane that crashed in a wooded area in Costa Rica on Sunday, killing all aboard, was carrying 10 US citizens and two local crewmembers, Costa Rica's government has confirmed. The Public Safety Ministry posted photographs and video of the crash site (top and bottom right) showing burning wreckage of the plane in Guanacaste, northwest Costa Rica. Local media said five of the US citizens were identified as Bruce Steinberg, Irene Steinberg, Matthew Steinberg, William Steinberg and Zachary Steinberg (all pictured left).

Seconds from disaster: Sea plane is caught on camera moments before it crashed into a Sydney river killing six on a sightseeing tour - including 'four Brits' and an 11-year-old boy 

A seaplane which crashed into a river near Sydney on New Year's eve killing six people, with four Britons reported among the dead, was captured on camera moments before it fell from the sky. The bodies of all the victims, believed to include an 11-year-old boy, have now been pulled from the water while emergency services work to retrieve the wreckage of the plane, which is 42ft below the surface. Investigators have not yet confirmed the identities of any of the dead and say they do not know what caused the crash. The victims are believed to have been on a 'wine and dine' tour before they died.

Photos of woman with breast cancer getting married

On December 23, 2016, Heather Lindsay revealed to her longtime boyfriend, David Mosher, that she had breast cancer. That very same day, he proposed to her, vowing to stand by her side during the troubling time. The couple were forced to move their December 30 2017 wedding date as Heather's cancer kept getting worse. Eventually they decided to marry on December 22 and 18 hours later, Heather Mosher passed away. Pictured left: David and Heather before they were married. Center, inset and right: The couple's hospital bed wedding celebration. Doctors and family were in attendance. Heather used her last remaining words to say her vows, according to bridesmaid Christina Kara.

Iran has threatened to use an 'iron fist' to crush dissent after a third night of anti-regime protests saw two people shot dead in the city of Dorud as activists attacked government buildings.

The Palestinian Foreign Minister says the Palestinian envoy to Washington is being temporarily called back for consultations over the future of relations with the United States.

German media reported that 15 people had to be rescued from Berlin Zoo station after witnesses described seeing huge plumes of smoke emanating from the building.

Matthew Riehl (pictured), 37, has been identified as the alleged gunman who killed a deputy and injured four other officers during an 'ambush attack' in Colorado early Sunday morning.

Jose Valdemar Hernandez Capetillo lost his fight for life after spending a week in a coma. He was rushed unconscious to hospital in Xalapa, the capital of Mexico State of Veracruz, on Christmas Eve.

Kim Jong-un has vowed to hang on to his nuclear weapons as long as the United States continues to conduct military drills with South Korea in a new statement released today.

Many of the isolated nation's citizens spent New Year's Eve at the Pyongyang Ice Sculpture Festival on Kim Il Sung Square.

Erricka Bridgeford first saw someone shot dead when she was 12 years old. Her brother has been killed, along with her stepson, her cousins and close friends. Murders are a daily event in blood soaked Baltimore.

The funeral for Ivana Smit, an 18-year-old Dutch model who fell 14 floors to her death at an apartment complex in Kuala Lumpur was held in Netherlands on Saturday.

Notorious extremist Omar Bakri (pictured here at his home in Tripoli, northern Lebanon, in 2010) has been stabbed in a prison fight between opposing Muslim groups.

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