An estimated 250,000 people watched the eight-minute firework display at the London Eye, while about 80,000 people attended the annual Hogmanay party in Edinburgh. In the capital crowds gathered along the banks of the river Thames and spilled into Trafalgar Square to watch the fireworks, which for the first time were set to music, including Queen's We Will Rock You, The Beatles's Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, and Blur's Song 2. Erin Wilkins, 26, and Emad Tehrani, 30, travelled from Australia to see in the new year in London. Wilkins said: "We've been queuing up here since midday and I think these are the best fireworks I have ever seen. It was awesome." In Edinburgh, fireworks lit up the sky above the castle before revellers joined in a mass rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Around 5,000 people packed into Glasgow's George Square to see in 2011. The celebrations continue in London today with half a million people expected to watch the 25th New Year's Day parade in Westminster, involving more than 10,000 musicians, cheerleaders and performers. The Metropolitan police said 77 arrests were made overnight, 24 being for public order offences. Sixteen people were arrested for assault and five for sexual offences. The London Ambulance Service said this New Year's Eve had been its busiest night on record, with control room staff taking an average of almost 11 calls every minute in the hours after midnight. By 4am operators had answered 2,639 emergency calls, the majority of which were related. At the busiest point of the night, 800 emergency calls were received an hour - an increase of 400% on an average night. Jason Killens, London Ambulance Service NHS Trust's deputy director of operations, said: "Demand on the service in the early hours was extremely high and a lot of that extra demand was because of alcohol-related calls and inappropriate use of the service – people shouldn't be calling 999 simply because they're drunk." in the West Midlands reported a busy night with lots of alcohol-related 999 calls, but no major incidents. West Midlands police said the force had received 1,200 calls by 3.30am while the region's ambulance service dealt with 2,050 calls between 8pm and 5am. The West Midlands ambulance service set up temporary minor injury units in Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Shrewsbury and Walsall in a bid to ease pressure on local accident and emergency departments. The busiest of the units was in Birmingham's Broad Street, where 35 people were treated, mainly for intoxication or assault.
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