Hogmanay 2011/12 live from the Edinburgh Street Party with Primal Scream & Mark Ronson performing

Edinburgh will always be one of the most magnificent cities to spend New Year with this year's Street Party attracting even more stars to perform in front of the Princes Street revelers!

2011/12 sees Primal Scream headlining along with Mark Ronson, The Vaccines, Friendly Fires, Kassidy and many more besides!

Wrap up warm and head into town to catch the fireworks display and all the fun of the street party and have an amazing night out.

To watch live please see: Edinburgh Hogmanay 2011/12

Independence Day 2011 across the US, with live webcam coverage of fireworks and festivities

Today is the Fourth of July and for the US it's a time for celebration and parties.

All across the USA there will be street parties, parades, firework displays, live music and crowds everywhere getting involved in the day's events.

We have details and webcams for locations such as California, Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, San Diego, New York, Capitol Hill and many more.

For full details and live webcams please see: Independence Day, Fourth of July 2011

Helsinki Midnight Run Webcam

Thousands of runners will take to the streets of Helsinki on Saturday 4 September for the 2010 annual Midnight run. With a huge turnout from the people of Helsinki, lining the streets to support those taking part in the race.

This live webcam is from Helsinki during the race.

Live Helsinki Webcam

History:

With the first race taking place in 1982, not many thought that twenty-eight years later it would be loved far outside Stockholm and Södermalms borders. The idea for the Midnight run was created by a group of people from Hammarby, Stockholm who had the idea based on combining sport and culture and to allow different generations to meet.

Twenty-eight years later, Midnight Run is now also in Gothenburg and Copenhagen.

What makes Midnight races exciting and unique is the late start time, the arrangements for the participants and the audience around the course and especially the mood and atmosphere that raises at a Midnight Race Evening.

Nottinghill Carnival 2010 Live Webcam

One of the biggest street parties of the year, Nottinghill Carnival never fails to impress. Don't miss it this weekend.

This webcam view will be covering the carnival live:

Live Nottinghill webcam

Carnival Background:

The roots of Carnival come from two separate but connected strands. Carnival began in January 1959 in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the depressing state of race relations at the time. This carnival organised by Claudia Jones (a "Trini") who is widely recognised as 'the Mother of Notting Hill Carnival', was a huge success, despite being held indoors. The London Free School inspired festival was the first organised outside event in August 1966. The prime mover was Rhaune Laslett, who was not aware of the indoor events when she first raised the idea. This was a more diverse Notting Hill event to promote cultural unity but overlapping with earlier events by the involvement of Russ Henderson's steel band who had played at the earlier Claudia Jones events.

By 1976, the event had become definitely Caribbean in flavour, with around 150,000 people attending. However, in that year and several subsequent years, Carnival was marred by riots, in which predominantly Caribbean youths fought with police a target due to the continuous harassment the population felt they were under. During this period, there was considerable coverage of the disorder in the press, which some felt took an unfairly negative and one-sided view of Carnival. For a while it looked as if the event would be banned. Prince Charles was one of the few establishment figures who supported the event.