Boozy bank holiday revellers kick off three-day weekend by donning fancy dress for famous pub crawl
TIPSY bank holiday revellers have already kicked off the three-day weekend by dressing up for a notorious pub crawl.
Hundreds have swarmed Leeds with feather boas and elaborate costumes for the Otley Run.
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A group of friends pose during the boozy pub crawl
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Some were more dedicated to their costumes than others
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One pack of friends dressed up as dalmatians, with the girls donning black and white spotted skirts
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This friend group dressed up in matching Star Wars costumes
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Two male friends beamed at the camera while brandishing baseball bats dressed up as comic book character Harley Quinn
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Dedicated boozers dressed up as traffic cones, Santas and even Doctor Who characters.
Drunk revellers were snapped clinging onto one another for support as they went from pub to pub.
One pack of friends dressed up as dalmatians, with the girls donning black and white spotted skirts.
Two male friends beamed at the camera while brandishing baseball bats dressed up as comic book character Harley Quinn.
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Other notable characters were spotted such as Batman, Spiderman, and the entire Star Wars crew.
Dobby the Elf from Harry Potter also featured in a group picture that spans multiple franchises.
The two-and-a-half mile pub crawl winds its way through a vomit-inducing 17 venues down Otley Road.
Punters typically knock back a drink in each establishment, with most totally legless halfway into the challenge.
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Participants begin at Woodies before swilling snifters at 15 other watering holes during the challenge, which takes place several times a year.
Drinkers sup a final brew at the aptly named Dry Dock - a narrow boat-turned-pub.
But those who were hoping for the scorching hot weather to last for thr holiday will be sorely disappointed.
The UK is set for a cool bank holiday with below average temperatures after record-breaking warm weather this week.
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Temperatures are expected to fall from highs of 22C in southern England on Saturday down to 16C on Sunday and 15C on Monday, the early May bank holiday.
This comes after the UK saw its warmest start to May on record, with highs of 29.3C in Kew Gardens, south-west London, on Thursday.
Provisional Met Office figures also showed the country recorded its brightest April since records began in 1910, with England seeing its sunniest ever, and the other home nations their second sunniest.
According to the Met Office, the bank holiday will be 'on the cool side, exacerbated by the ongoing wind in the east and south'.
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Jonathan Vautrey, a meteorologist at the Met Office, said: 'Northerly winds are going to be driving in those much cooler and fresher conditions across all areas of the UK.
'That northerly wind is coming down from the North Sea, it's going to be filtering in a reasonable amount of clouds across eastern coastal areas, both Scotland and England. So here, temperature is going to be held back quite a bit.
'When you add on the strength of that wind as well, it is going to be much cooler and much chillier compared to recent days.'
While south-east England is expecting somewhat mild temperatures of between 14C and 15C, temperatures in north-west England are expected to fall to 13C and the north east is set for a chillier 11C.
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'Tomorrow temperatures will be around the typical average values for this time of year', he continued.
'Into Sunday and Monday, we're actually going to see them dropping slightly below average, again, primarily across the eastern half of the UK.'
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Many donned masks or face paint for the infamous pub crawl
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Drunk revellers were snapped clinging onto one another for support as they went from pub to pub
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A grinning group of friends dressed up for the Otley run
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All sorts of costumes made an appearance today
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