Take a ride on a big wheel
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Preston\'s Christmas Ferris Wheel
This Christmas, big wheels will be popping up all over the country...
Manchester, London, Belfast and York, each have a 60 meter wheel with 42 capsules that seat up to six people. Capsules can also be hired privately for VIP and champagne rides.
Edinburgh has just put up it\'s 33-metre ferris wheel which overlooks Princess Street and all the pretty Christmas lights, and
Preston has a beautiful 35-meter wheel on Market Square, both are open until 6 January.
The London Eye is putting on some Christmas themed flights that include a complimentary glass of mulled wine or spiced hot apple drink. For more information on this or the Winter Pimms and Chocolate Truffles Capsule
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Get your skates on
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Somerset House Ice Rink London
Pretty much every major town and city in the country has an outdoor ice rink this Christmas, so there’s no excuse not to indulge in a spot of icy fun. London has an abundance of rinks to choose from, but our favourite sits within the beautiful setting of Somerset House, which holds skating lessons, late skate sessions and DJ nights to boot. Other rinks worthy of note include Edinburgh, which has a very pretty temporary home beneath the twinkling tree lights in Princess Street Gardens, Birmingham’s funky Street Ice rink has an amazing sound system, Bristol Zoo’s Winter Ice Rink, lets you skate around between visits to the animals, while at Cambridge you can be the first to try ice rink bumper cars!
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Look at the pretty lights
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Newcastle: Glow 07
This Christmas there are an abundance of alternative festive light shows and arty installations springing up across the countryside that shouldn\'t be missed. In Liverpool, internationally renowned French artist
Franck Scurti has been commissioned to design a series of
striking light installations for Kirkdale, Kensington and Garston. In London Anya Gallaccio, a former Turner Prize nominee has been commissioned by The Hayward to create a new display of festive lights while David Batchelor\'s popular display
Festival Remix has returned to the Southbank Centre. In Bristol you can take an evening stroll through an
Enchanted Wood (until 23 December), and there will also be
a week of light shows around across the city between 17 and 21 December. In the north east don\'t miss
Northumberland Lights 2007, which will feature various guerrilla lighting events across the region, and in Newcastle, make sure you check out this year\'s
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Take in a Christmas market
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Christmas Deluxe in London\'s Covent Garden
There is a fabulous selection of festive markets to be visited right across the UK this year. Our pick of the bunch include
York, which is holding several continental, craft and farmers markets over December, as is
Newcastle. In Leeds don\'t miss the fabelhaft
Christkindelmarkt from 16-20 December. The lovely
Lanes Christmas Market in Brighton on 15 December is great for unique gifts, and for some great Scottish produce, make sure you visit the
Highland Village Christmas Market in Edinburgh.
Winchester Cathedral Market is another stunner that contains everything a Christmas shopper could possibly desire, while Londoners should make their way to
Covent Garden for Christmas Deluxe which includes a great food market, couture gift wrapping, the Christmas decoration exchange and amazing acrobatic performances in the piazza
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See an ice show
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High School Musical Ice Tour
If you\'re bored of the usual pantos and ballet performances, try going to an ice show instead. Everyone\'s favourite Disney commodity,
High School Musical, is
taking to the ice this winter - starting at the O2 arena in London this month, and working its way around the country via Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow in January. Also on the ice this Christmas is
Peter Pan in Cambridge, and
The Nutcracker in Chelmsford. Also on tour this Christmas are operatic outfit
Arias on Ice, who will be appearing on ice rinks in London, The Isle of White, Oxford and Peterborough
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Party hard
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Turnmills Together NYE
As usual the UK clubs will be putting on some of their biggest nights over Christmas and the New Year, not least
The Cross in London, who will be opening their doors for the very last time on NYE, so make sure you don\'t miss that. Also in London is
Tru\'s Do\'s New Year\'s Eve Party at the Sheraton Skyline Hotel, which according to reports will be full of celebrities. At London\'s
Turnmills, 2manydjs, Mylo and Simian Mobile Disco will be headlining their
Together NYE party. In Manchester, don\'t miss the New Year\'s Eve/New Year\'s Day
Warehouse Project parties. Also in Manchester, Tiger Tiger are holding a
NYE 007 Bond party. For a full on Hogmanay, get yoursel\' tae Scotland. In
Glasgow there\'s a bit of a
hootenanny in George Square but
Edinburgh is where the real party\'s at... Kasabian, Idlewild and Calvin Harris will all be putting in an appearance
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The best of the rest
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Liverpool Live Nativity
Don\'t miss
the Kylie exhibition at Glasgow\'s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum until 13 January. Also on the hot list is the fantastical
Frost Fair on London\'s Bankside from 14-16 December, an Edwardian Christmas at Polesden Lacy in Surrey from 6-8 December,
Enchanted Parks in Leazes and Saltwell Parks in
Newcastle from 8-16 December, and finally, the
Liverpool Live Nativity on William Brown Street, Liverpool on 16 December
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