All over Britain there are parties, fireworks, singing and dancing, to ring out the old year and ring in the new. As the clock strikes at midnight, people link arms and sing a song called Auld Lang Syne.

A maypole is a tall wooden pole erected as a part of various European folk festivals, around which a maypole dance often takes place.

St George is known throughout the world as the dragon-slaying patron saint of England. But it is highly unlikely that he ever fought a dragon, and even more unlikely that he ever actually visited England.

For most people in England St George´s day is just another ordinary working day.