Images of New Years Day

Selected by Deputy Picture Editor Alan Betson

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TAR BURNER: People parade through the streets with barrels of buring tar on New Year's Eve in Allendale, Britain. Dating back to 1858, 45 barrel carriers, called Guisers, parade through the town balancing whisky barrels filed with burning tar on their heads. The barrels are used to light a bonfire at midnight in the town center while spectators and participants shout 'Bedamned to he who throws last'. Photograph: Nigel Roddis/EPA

SAND RACE: Jockeys compete in a race for purebred Arab horses during the Liwa 2019 Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, some 250 kilometres west of the Gulf Emirate of Abu Dhabi, during the Liwa 2019 Moreeb Dune Festival on January 1st, 2019. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, hosts a variety of races including cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses, alongside other activities aimed at promoting the country's folklore. Photograph: Karim Sahib/AFP/Getty

Tue Jan 01 2019 - 17:44

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