Scotland loves the New Year. We even have a special name for New Year’s Eve. We call it Hogmanay.

Today is Constitution Day in Spain. In Britain, however, there is not a similar day because Britain has an ‘unwritten’ constitution.

December 1 is World AIDS Day, a day for people worldwide to unite in the fight against HIV and AIDS

Scotland celebrates St Andrew’s Day on Monday, 30 November, with a bank holiday and festivities across the country. Here are five little-known facts to mark the national day.

October 16 is World Food Day. The day highlights problems around the world of hunger and malnutrition.

Public holidays in Britain are called bank holidays. Traditionally they are on a Monday.

October is Black History Month in the United Kingdom.

On 29 September in 1829, the first members of London’s new police force started to walk the city’s streets.

Today is the day we say goodbye to summer. The season is changing to autumn.

On 20 September, 1973 a Battle of the Sexes took place on a tennis court in Houston, Texas. It changed women’s sports forever.