Hourly firework displays will mark the count down to 2013 as part of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations.
BBC: Edinburgh Hogmanay: Hourly fireworks in countdown to 2013
The forest show beat off competition from Glasgow Film Festival and Edinburgh's Hogmanay among others.
Police have named the man murdered in Glasgow on Hogmanay as 21-year-old Ryan Sherry.
George Ralston Wyllie was born in Shettleston in Glasgow's east end on Hogmanay 1921.
It also reviewed progress in the town's clean-up operation and preparations for Hogmanay events.
Scottish rockers Biffy Clyro are to headline this year's Hogmanay line-up in Edinburgh.
Organisers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay celebrations are confident the recent severe winter weather will not return to dampen the party.
George McDonald, 51, was last seen on Hogmanay near his home in Alloa.
Organisers of Edinburgh's 2003 Hogmanay street party were forced to cancel the event due to severe weather in the capital.
Derek Roy, 46, and Derek Youngson, 19, were killed in a blaze in Kirk Brae, in Fraserburgh, on Hogmanay 2006.
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Tickets are already on sale for Edinburgh's Hogmanay Street Party, featuring live music stages, giant screens and the famous midnight fireworks.
Joanna White and a group of friends travelled from Melbourne and Adelaide in Australia to experience their first Hogmanay in Edinburgh.
Simple Minds, The View and Bwani Junction performed at the Concert in the Gardens on Hogmanay, and there were fireworks throughout the evening.
The RMT union made the announcement as members prepared to stage a fresh wave of strikes in the Stirling area on Hogmanay and 5 January.
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Revellers in Aberdeen brought in the new year with a fireworks display at His Majesty's Theatre, while the Proclaimers headlined a Hogmanay concert on the esplanade of Stirling Castle.
In a report on the problems of the recent Hogmanay event, Jim Inch, the city's director of corporate services, called on the executive to pledge more financial backing for the Hogmanay celebrations.
Although full details of the Hogmanay programme will be kept under wraps until the public launch of the Christmas and Hogmanay event on 31 October, organisers said this year would see the return of the German Market.
BBC: Edinburgh Hogmanay: Hourly fireworks in countdown to 2013
Existing events such as Hogmanay, Edinburgh festivals, Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival, Edinburgh Mela, Royal National MOD, Turriff Show, East Neuk Festival, Outdoor Orkney Festival and Tweedlove Bike Festival will receive funding for homecoming additions to their planned programmes for next year.
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