10,000 attend free New Year's Eve concert on Wenceslas Square

An estimated 10,000 people attended a free concert on Prague's Wenceslas Square on New Year's Eve. The show, which was broadcast live on TV Nova, featured almost 200 singers and musicians. Police said the event had passed off peacefully.

Elsewhere the city's rescue workers had their busiest New Year's Eve in five years; they were called out to investigate almost 300 cases of injury, mostly due to alcohol.