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In pictures: UK prepares for new millennium
The countdown has begun to the UK's millennium celebrations. BBC News Online captures the anticipation in pictures.
A salute is fired at Woolwich in London to mark the last 12 hours of the 20th Century |
Crowds assemble in the capital |
The funfair by Buckingham Palace proves a particular draw |
Nottingham holds the last service of remembrance of the century |
An unsafe pod puts a spoke in the wheel for the BA London Eye |
But "aerialists" rehearse undeterred for the Millennium Dome opening ceremony |
The Dome will be opened by the Queen just before midnight GMT |
Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, lights one of the first of 10,000 beacons across the UK |
Plymouth Hoe bids a military farewell to the century |
The UK's last sunset of the second millennium, over the Scilly Isles |
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