Crowds gathered on Edinburgh's Calton Hill on Halloween night for the annual Samhuinn Fire Festival. The celebration marks the end of the warmer months and the start of winter, with fire dancing, acrobatics, drumming and colourful costumes.
The Pride of Reading Awards 2026 are highlighting local music.
Cake artists are preparing large edible displays for Cake International at the NEC in Birmingham, including a life-sized sugar-paste royal couple and a life-sized cake of TV presenter Alison Hammond. The event, one of the world's biggest cake decorating shows, is expected to welcome about 25,000 visitors over three days.
Fenwick's Christmas window in Newcastle has unveiled a display based on The Gruffalo's Child, created with author Julia Donaldson and illustrator Axel Scheffler. Thousands tuned in to watch the reveal, and the window has been a family tradition since 1971.
