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The Merlin Entertainments London Eye will light up the South Bank tonight (9 March) with an extravagant fireworks show to celebrate its tenth birthday.

From 7pm, visitors will enjoy an impressive light show, with those booking a flight receiving a free glass of Pommery champagne.

“Everyone at the London Eye is thrilled to be celebrating this important landmark with our visitors, who have been so important along the way, and we can’t wait to see it all come to life on the day,” said David Sharpe, managing director of the London Eye and divisional director of London Midway Attractions.

The Merlin Entertainments London Eye has welcomed more than 36 million visitors over the past nine years.

The capital’s Chinese New Year celebrations are set to transform central London on Sunday 21 February 2010.

Visitors to Trafalgar Square, Leicester Square and London Chinatown will be able to welcome in the Year of the Tiger in spectacular style – with Chinese arts and entertainment from international and home-grown artists, and food, firecrackers and fireworks.

In Trafalgar Square, two groups from China will perform world-class dance, music and acrobatics after an official opening ceremony. There will also be firecrackers, Chinese dragons, lions and Chinese acrobatics.

Meanwhile, in a specially decorated Chinatown there will be cultural stalls, food and lion dance displays. Shaftesbury Avenue will become ‘Hong Kong in London Chinatown’ with a stage featuring performances by local Chinese artists.

A colourful fireworks display in Leicester Square will close the celebrations. Running orders (subject to change)

Trafalgar Square Stage

• 11:15 Firecrackers
• 12:00 Opening ceremony begins with speeches
• 12:30 Doting Dragon’s Eyes
• 12:45 Dragon Dance
• 12:55 Lion Dance performance
• 13:10 Dance, music, acrobatics, martial arts performances by visiting Chinese artists
• 18:00 Ends

Chinatown

• 12:00-18:00 Lion dances around Chinatown and Shaftesbury Avenue
• 12:00-18:00 haftesbury Avenue Stage – Hong Kong In London Chinatown
• 12:00-16:00 Performances by local Chinese artists

Leicester Square

• 17:55 Fireworks and firecrackers

All locations

• 12:00-17:00 Stalls with a variety of wares

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9,600 LEDs are to be installed in the Clink Street railway arch to provide an all-day stylised silent gold and silver fireworks display.

Southwark Council’s planning committee last week resolved to grant permission for the installation which has received funding from Borough & Bankside Community Council under the Cleaner Greener Safer programme.

Following consultation with Clink Street residents the council has proposed that the ‘fireworks’ display will operate daily between 7.30am and 10.30pm with a twinkling night sky effect during the first and last half hours.

The display will be on a 48-hour schedule with variable intervals between the firework showers. Sometimes there will be a gap of up to 15 minutes between displays.

The LEDs will be mounted on mesh panels similar to those used in Great Suffolk Street and for the bridge 401 lighting in Union Street.

The new installation is part of the Light at the End of the Tunnel programme which has seen many of SE1′s railway arches cleaned and new lighting schemes installed.

The Clink Street arch has a particularly high profile as it forms part of the Thames Path National Trail for walkers and route 4 of the National Cycle Network.

See the West End fizz into life at the fireworks display at Leicester Square, which takes place to celebrate Chinese New Year and the beginning of the Year of the Tiger.

Fizz, bang and pop
Part of a day of public celebrations for Chinese New Year, the fireworks display at Leicester Square aims to get the Year of the Tiger off to a flying start with a free pyrotechnics display. Fireworks are a traditional part of Chinese New celebrations, and the free display in the West End are bound to draw Londoners in their thousands.

Year of the Tiger
Although Chinese New Year actually falls on the 14th February for 2010, London will be officially celebrating the start of the Year of the Tiger the weekend after with a series of city wide public events. As well as the spectacular fireworks display at Leicester Square, there’ll be lion dances and music in Trafalgar Square, celebrations in Chinatown and special menus in Chinese restaurants across London.

Grand finale
As with past years, the fireworks display at Leicester Square is the grand finale of a day long celebration for Chinese New Year in London. There’ll be parades and performances taking place throughout Central London, focusing on the area around Trafalgar Square and Chinatown.

Events for kids
The West End fireworks are bound to be a big hit with Londoners of all ages, but there’s also a special programme of arts and crafts events taking place at museums and galleries across the city to entertain children too. Running throughout half term, there’s mask and flag making workshops, tiger photo exhibitions and much more to see and do.

Jack Morton Worldwide is creating the fireworks display to mark midnight on New Year’s Eve over the River Thames and the London Eye.

This is the sixth consecutive year the brand experience consultancy has designed the event for the Mayor of London.

Millions of people across the country are expected to watch the display live on BBC One, and there will also be viewing areas by the Thames to see the display.

London Mayor Boris Johnson says, ‘London will bring in 2010 with a bang, a glittering explosion across the midnight sky. We want to show the world we are looking forward to the future with the optimism and energy that characterises our capital and makes it the most exciting city on earth.’

Julian Pullan, EVP managing director, EMEA, for Jack Morton, says, ‘We are now in our sixth year of working on the New Year’s Eve celebrations, and are very pleased to be continuing our partnership with the Greater London Authority on this event until 2011.’