We're Christmashed! Revellers embrace Mad Friday across Britain on the biggest (and booziest) night of the year for office parties
Festive revellers were out in full force last night as the Christmas party season hit its peak.
Partygoers wearing Santa hats, elf costumes and polar bear jumpers were pictured blowing off steam across the country to celebrate 'Mad Friday'.
While others were seen rowing with bouncers and squaring up to each other outside as intoxicated tempers clashed.
Across the North clubbers braved freezing temperatures as they made their way between venues.
Mad Friday is traditionally held on the last Friday before Christmas Day although many UK cities, including Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham and Newcastle, feared that next Friday is too close to December 25 meaning people may be away on holidays. Many clubs and bars therefore decided to celebrate the event last night instead.
The pictures come after authorities issued warnings to people travelling during drunken nights out during the festive season.
Accidents involving drunken passengers spike during the Christmas period in Britain as more people misuse level crossings and suffer trips and slips on platforms, stairs and escalators.
Around one in six of the 7,419 drink-related incidents on Britain's railways in 2016/17 took place between November 24 and January 2.
A group of women take on the cold in Newcastle as they move between venues on the biggest night of the year for office parties
A bouncer helps a girl pick up a drunk reveller who had stumbled over outside a club on Birmingham's Broad Street
A man lifts and carries a woman at Deansgate Locks in Manchester as partygoers fully embraced Mad Friday
Fellow party-goers break up the fight on Broad Street last night. Temperatures in Birmingham plunged to just one degree above freezing
Revellers and drinkers wearing festive jumpers and tinsel enjoy a night out on Newcastle's famous Bigg Market
Clubbers brave freezing temperatures as they wait for taxis on the streets of Manchester last night
Revellers in Father Christmas costumes in London's Leicester Square on the penultimate Friday before Christmas
Two partygoers throw their full weight into the spirit of Mad Friday by donning amusing festive outfits in Newcastle
A man in a Santa hat struggles to keep his eyes open as he sits in a doorway in Soho, London, left, while a Birmingham reveller shows off her bull-riding costume
Four friends wearing Christmas jumpers decide where to go next on their night out in Birmingham
A club promoter dressed in drag hands out flyers on Manchester's Sackville Street
Partygoers wearing Santa hats, elf costumes and festive jumpers were pictured blowing off steam on the streets of Leeds
Revellers Vera and Monica pose for a photograph while wearing Santa hats outside a bar in Birmingham last night
A woman gets a piggyback from a helpful elf in the centre of Leeds, left, and right, 'Santa' appears to ride Rudolph in a very bizarre costume in Newcastle
One reveller sits on the floor as Christmas part-goers eat pasties outside a Greggs in Bigg Market last night
A woman wearing a festive headband and her friend, wearing a Christmas jumper, share a joke while sitting on the pavement in Newcastle
A group of men appear to square up to each other in the centre of Leeds as intoxicated tempers flare
Police officers stand outside a club in Birmingham. Police and an ambulance were present in the city throughout the night, but a few fights still managed to occur
A man is treated for a head injury in the back of an ambulance in Birmingham last night
Clubbers dressed in elf and Santa costumes queue outside a bar in Newcastle's Bigg Market
Mad Friday traditionally falls on the last Friday of Christmas but this year was celebrated on December 15. Pictured: Clubbers in Newcastle
A group of young men lift up their friend by the legs as the Christmas party season reaches its peak
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