English festivals Christmas tree, cards, and lights both inside and outside the home. Every year, Norway donates a giant Christmas tree for the British to raise in Trafalgar Square as a thank you for helping during the Second World War. Christmas carolers at Trafalgar Square in London sing around the tree on various evenings up until Christmas Eve and Christmas decorations are traditionally left up until the evening of January 5 (the night before Epiphany); it is considered bad luck to have Christmas decorations up after this date. In practice, many Christmas traditions, such as the playing of Christmas music, largely stop
1996 Trafalgar Square riots flashback to the large-scale football violence in the country during the 1980s. However the rioting was the only notable incident that happened during the Euro 1996 championship, which went by mostly peaceful and orderly. These were the worst of the rioting that happened that day in several places in the country, including in Swindon and Bedford, where looting occurred. In Shirley, West Midlands, hooligans threw bricks at an Aldi (German) supermarket. In Brighton, a Russian student was stabbed five times by a hooligan thinking he was German. 1996 Trafalgar Square riots The 1996 Trafalgar Square riots in London occurred on