People planning bonfires next week are urged to avoid burning items that harm the environment.
It is illegal to burn most types of waste and setting fire to treated wood, tyres, plastics, rubber and oil can seriously harm health and pollute the environment.
The Environment Agency advises people holding their own bonfires:
Make sure waste is kept securely before being burned
Make sure the material being burned is suitable - it may include untreated wood, branches, and small amounts of leaves, cardboard and paper; never include plastics, rubber, glass
The Environment Agency is asking people planning a Guy Fawkes bonfire to make sure they only burn paper, leaves, wood and cardboard and any waste is kept securely before being burned.
Every year families use old bits of furniture to build up a bonfire and stuff the Guy with scraps of used foam or old clothing. But it is important to remember the burning of most types of waste is illegal. Setting fire to treated wood, tyres, plastics, rubber and oil can seriously harm health and pollute the environment.
It is also important to prevent others from dumping illegal waste on...
Your essential guide to What’s On in around Exeter this weekend (3-5 November)
THEATRE
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Friday & Saturday, Barnfield Theatre, Exeter Hot Rock Productions presents ‘Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street’. Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece, and the definitive ‘Grusical’, don’t miss out on the ultimate theatrical horror experience. www.barnfieldtheatre.org.uk
Medea Friday & Saturday, Beer Quarry Caves Four of Swords perform Medea in the spectacular Beer Quarry Caves. Freely adapted from the Greek masterpiece...
Devon, Somerset and Torbay Trading Standards Service is urging residents to only buy fireworks from reputable traders.
As the fireworks season approaches many people will consider buying fireworks for private functions to mark events including Halloween and Bonfire Night. When buying fireworks always look for the CE mark – fireworks must always display this as it shows the product has been designed and manufactured in accordance with the essential safety requirements. The service is also reminding traders that the legal minimum age for buying fireworks is 18 and if in doubt they...
Your 2016 guide to fireworks displays taking place in and around Exeter:
Friday 4 November
Exmouth Round Table Annual Charity Fireworks Display Exmouth Rugby Football Club, Royal Avenue, Exmouth Raising funds in aid of Exmouth RNLI. The evening will be hosted by Radio Exe and Chris Dinnis. Creation Station are in attendance for those who would like to get arty before the fireworks start. Admission: £6 adults, £4 children. Gates open at 6pm with the fireworks from 7.30pm. https://exmouth.roundtable.co.uk
Fireworks Night a Exeter Golf & Country Club Topsham Road, Exeter...
"Family, friends, community, excitement, creativity, quirky costumes, spectacular sets, amazing firework display, a soundtrack you would never think of, a coming together of people from all over West Devon and Exeter to enjoy a village event like no other..." The Fireshow is a uniquely creative event.
Each November, after months of writing, designing, building and costume-making, a pageant is performed on a specially prepared stage, which is then burnt at the end of the show to create a bonfire with an accompanying firework display. Tickets: £8 adult, £4 child (14 and under)....
Every year on November 5th for reasons lost in antiquity, the Flaming Tar Barrels are carried through the streets of Ottery St Mary to the delight of thousands of townsfolk and visitors.
Ottery St. Mary is internationally renowned for its Tar Barrels, an old custom said to have originated in the 17th century, and which is held on November 5th each year. Each of Ottery's central public houses sponsors a single barrel. In the weeks prior to the day of the event, November 5th, the barrels are soaked with tar. The barrels are lit outside each of the pubs in turn and once the flames...
A town in Kent is burning a 30ft effigy of former Apprentice contestant Katie Hopkins in its annual bonfire night celebrations.
The giant steel framed model will be stuffed with fireworks and oil stuffed paper before being lit on Saturday (2 November).
Devon based Hopkins has drawn widespread criticism for her views childhood obesity and children’s names is the latest in a long line of famous (and infamous) figures to be burnt in the Kent town of Edenbridge.
Former guy’s include Wayne Rooney, disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong and Cherie Blair.
