London's New Year's Day Parade live online

London's New Year's Day Parade live online

London's New Year's Day Parade live online

BBC London is streaming online the three-hour parade through the streets of the capital to herald in 2010.
You can witness the colour and excitement as thousands of cheerleaders march past some of the greatest icons of our city surrounded by pomp and an irrepressible energy.
With their endless enthusiasm, American cheerleaders take over Piccadilly Circus; marching bands, draped in perfect uniforms, keep pace along Pall Mall; and floats from some of London's 33 boroughs proudly announce all that's best from their part of the city.

BBC London will capture this with a live online stream of the event starting at 12pm and finishing at 3pm. Bookmark this page so you can witness the spectacle if you are unable to line the streets to see it for real.
The New Year's Day parade is broadcast by 550 TV stations across the world - including China, USA, Australia - to a potential global audience of 240 million people.
More than 8,500 performers from London, the UK, continental Europe, Japan and the United States will be taking part.
Upwards of half a million people will line the parade route, which - in a break from tradition - will be marched in reverse in 2010.
The parade will start outside the Ritz Hotel, travel to Piccadilly Circus, down Regent Street, along Pall Mall, Trafalgar Square, down Whitehall and end up in Parliament Square.
We shall be adding the embedded link to the stream here on Friday morning before the parade starts so please bookmark this page. UK users only.