Whether you braved the freezing temperatures to get crushed in a crowd waiting for those fleeting firework moments, nursed a celebration pint in a pub (without having to pay through the nose for the privilege for entering the premises), negotiated a house party without crashing out or leaving territory-marking evidence, or watched the organised mayhem that is Jools Holland's annual Hootenanny music show, it was inevitable that news items in the morning would report a huge spike in alcohol-related admissions to Accident and Emergency facilities.
The spectacle of ambulances screeching towards hospitals is almost as much of a feature of the New Year as the London Eye, Edinburgh Castle, the Eiffel Tower, the Times Square ball drop, the Kremlin, or Sydney Harbour Bridge.
I'm not sure if drinking culture abroad is so endemic outside the UK: our parochial news suggests that British tourists are feared in certain popular holiday destinations, but I don't know if foreign tabloids cover drinking escapades of their own citizens to the same extent.
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