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British New Year celebrations and traditions.
New Year’s Day is celebrated on January 1st. New Year’s Day is a bank holiday. A bank holiday is a public holiday. Most shops and businesses close for the day. New Year’s Day is a holiday for nearly everyone in the UK. Very few trains and buses run on New Year’s Day. Most people stay at home and relax with their families.
There is an old tradition in Scotland and some other parts of the UK that the first person to enter someone’s home on New Year’s Day will bring all the luck for the coming year with them. This tradition is called first footing.
The first person to enter a house on New Year’s Day is known as the first footer. Dark-haired people are thought to be the luckiest first footers, and it is traditional to carry a lump of coal when going first footing.
People often make New Year’s resolutions at the start of the New Year. Resolutions are things that people have decided (or resolved) to do to make their lives better, such as stopping smoking or losing weight. Not everybody manages to keep their New Year’s resolutions, though!
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