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ISLANDERS celebrated seeing in the New Year in a whole variety of styles.

People of all ages joined in the festivities and sang Auld Lang Syne after Big Ben had chimed in the start of the year. Pubs, hotels and restaurants were busy as revellers sought to raise a glass to a great 2008. Many more either stayed at home or went to parties at friends’ homes to mark the start of the year. And the States police were pleased . . . they said that it was a quiet night in comparison to many previous years. For Susannah Gulley, 1 January was a very special day as she celebrated her 18th birthday with a party at her Grasett Park home. Posh frocks and dinner jackets were the order of the day at many functions, and the champagne bar at the Royal Yacht Hotel’s first New Year was a s****y affair. Scottish pipers played at a number of venues, while others had firework displays to mark the occasion. At the Vic in the Valley, in St Peter, about 70 partygoers watched as hundreds of pounds worth of fireworks were launched from a field opposite the pub.