
Chilly: Girls in bikinis enjoyed a dip at the New Year's Day swim in Whitley Bay, Tyneside

Humour: Swimmers in fancy dress wore hula skirts and Viking outfits over their swimming costumes
Line-up: Swimmers pose for a photograph as they endure the freezing temperatures

Fancy dress: Swimmers yelp as they splash about in the freezing waters of the Firth of Forth

Brave: The swimmers were taking part in an annual tradition as part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations
Grins: A couple pose in a novelty polaroid frame as the celebrate the arrival of the New Year
Selfie: A laughing woman takes a photograph of herself as she splashes around the Forth
Carefree: One woman shows that she is unaffected by the cold as she takes part in the Scarborough tradition
Novelty: A pair dressed up as an elderly couple paddle in the water in Scarborough's South Bay
Latin spirit: A Panamanian dancer struts her stuff to the sound of the band as the rain pitter-patters on the grand architecture
Hungry: The cheerleaders take a break for a snack as they wait for the rain to pass in London

Swansea: A young man poses carrying a seemingly passed-out woman so another can capture the image on her mobile phone during last night's New Year's Eve celebrations

Newcastle: Two friends carry their worse for wear and barefoot friend after a night out in and around the northern city's notorious Bigg Market

Manchester: A group of friends look concerned as they support a young woman who is being sick in the street last night

Liverpool: Liverpudlian revellers partied hard as they celebrated the arrival of 2014 but the streets where lined with extra police to control the crowds and in case trouble broke-out

Happy new year: Two friends share a cigarette and a kiss outside a nightclub while sitting on a Newcastle kerb this morning

Birmingham: West Midlands Ambulance paramedics tend to a paralytic reveller passed out on a fence on Birmingham's Broad Street during New Year's Eve celebrations in the city

Caped crusaders: A group of young men enjoy some New Year's fun by dressing as superheroes Batman, Robin and Superman in Soho overnight

London: A young lady speaks to Scotland Yard officers in Soho, central London last night, in a city where more than 100 were arrested overnight for various crimes linked to the celebrations

In need of help: A young man appears to collapse to the ground in Manchester and is held up by a friend as others watch on

Fall: The bemused looking young man then fell to the floor with this young woman on top of him outside the Manchester Printworks club

Feeling unwell: A young woman looks poorly and has a bottle of water at her feet while being comforted by another woman in a Soho doorway

Upset: A young woman looks tearful as her friends support her in Newcastle, while police deal with an incident in the street behind them
In need of help: This young woman's sore feet appear to get the better of her as a friend carried her through the streets of Liverpool

Filthy work: More than 250,000 people turned out to watch the fireworks in central London but the result was piles and piles of mess, including here on Parliament Square

In front of the Eye: At the spot where many watched the fireworks street cleaners and rubbish collectors take part in a huge operation to clean up the streets of central London following New Year's Eve celebrations