There's a contradiction. New Year's night, not Christmas, used to be the Scottish winter family celebration. Not any more.
The big street parties started in Edinburgh in the mid 1990s and have been followed by other Scottish cities. Now anybody aged from 16 to 30 or so heads with a bottle to one of these organised events. The rest of the population sits at home in front of the television with a glass watching the same party.
The family Hogmanay is dead. But was its demise inevitable?
Read my full article by clicking on the link to the Caledonian Mercury under the picture of Edinburgh's Hogmanay.
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