21.   After the speech, the assembled supporters celebrated the New Year by shooting fireworks and singing traditional and rebel songs.

22.   Coalition supporters celebrated the victory here as hundreds of thousands of people jammed the city centre for the annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras festival.

23.   Coalition supporters celebrated the victory here, as hundreds of thousands of people jammed the city centre for the annual gay and lesbian Mardi Gras festival.

24.   Much of Paris was invaded overnight with young Chirac supporters celebrating his win by whizzing up and down the main streets waving flags outside windows and beeping car horns.

25.   The CCM, whose jubilant supporters were celebrating in the streets, meanwhile announced it had accepted the results.