Crowds had gathered there earlier in the evening for a planned event to celebrate
Guy Fawkes Night.
As part of a nation wide effort to curb anti social behaviour on
Guy Fawkes night, police will accompany fire crews to calls likely to result in problems.
"We want it to be better than ever and as
Guy Fawkes night falls on a Monday, we are considering whether we should hold our display on the Sunday instead so more people have a chance to enjoy it."
Seven regions across the UK had "high" or "very high" levels of pollution, probably owing to
Guy Fawkes Night celebrations, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) said.
WITH the sale of fireworks in shops more than three weeks before
Guy Fawkes night, it is inevitable that the usual array of idiots have started setting them off already.
Have a happy Halloween and
Guy Fawkes night. Keep safe - and make sure your pets do too.
We can't even run to a few bangers on
Guy Fawkes night the city is so cash-strapped, as it said in Friday's Mail, mainly due to the equal pay debacle for which the citizens are still paying out millions for.
It comes after a petition calling for fireworks to only be allowed on "traditional dates" such as New Year's Eve, Diwali and
Guy Fawkes Night, to reduce stress and fear in animals, reached more than 100,000 signatures.
Tracking visibility changes at 34 meteorological stations across the United Kingdom, atmospheric scientists from the University of Birmingham in England found that visibility dropped by around 25 percent each year on November's
Guy Fawkes Night before returning to normal a day or two later.
In earlier times, fireworks were confined to
Guy Fawkes Night and major national occasions.
Talk of parliamentary plots a few days after
Guy Fawkes Night is overblown, although Labour's grumbling will prove a church whisper compared with the carnage awaiting Cameron should UKIP take Rochester from the Tories in this month's by-election.
Guy Fawkes Night - effigies of Guy Fawkes are burned on this night