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Your support makes all the difference. Read more Ceremonies have been held across the UK and Ireland to mark the winter solstice.
December 21 is the shortest day and longest night of the year, with London experiencing seven hours and 49 minutes of daylight.
Glastonbury Tor in Somerset is one of the most popular gathering points to mark the event.
In Wiltshire , the prehistoric Stonehenge monument was busy this year.
Across the Irish Sea, a monument in Newgrange, Co Meath, which is thought to be more than 5,000 years old drew a number of people keen to mark the solstice.
