10 Tonnes of Mayhem Taken Off the Streets ; Bonfire Night Brings Many Dangers to Merseyside Communities. Alan Weston Reports
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THIS year marks the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot, the failure of which is celebrated every year with bonfires and fireworks up and down the land. But, while the historical background of the event is now all but obliterated, the noise and anti-social behaviour associated with the event is an ever-present reality for many thousands of residents in the weeks before and after November 5.
The misuse of fireworks largely stems from the unregulated sale of illegal pyrotechnics, which often fall into the hands of youths who put their own and others' safety at risk.See the full content of this document
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10 Tonnes of Mayhem Taken Off the Streets ; Bonfire Night Brings Many Dangers to Merseyside Communities. Alan Weston Reports
However, the unlicensed storage of fireworks is also potentially a source of huge danger to the public, as is graphically revealed by the recovery last week of 10 tonnes of rockets from a Liverpool city centre warehouse in Kempston Street. If they had exploded, the consequences in such a heavily populated are...
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