The latter was BBC Scotland’s Hogmanay 2025 which, while ably presented by Amy Irons, left no Scottish cliché on the shelf. The same touchstones are wheeled out every old year’s night because, so the thinking goes, this is who we are. Viewers like me who are equally proud to be British would have waited in vain for any nod to that element of our identity. It is a half-hour film of my grandfather Fred Brocklebank’s 65th birthday party in May 1982 – footage, which until this week, I was unaware even existed. The unsuspecting birthday boy arrived at his daughter Averill’s house thinking it was a small family celebration.

Source: Daily Mail January 01, 2026 20:14 UTC