(in the UK) 5 November, on which bonfires and fireworks are lit in memory of the Gunpowder Plot, traditionally including the burning of an effigy of Guy Fawkes.
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Are Bonfire Night and Hallowe'en becoming an excuse for young people to cause problems and, if so, is this because of a lack of opportunities for young people?
Laws will be passed to ban the sale of ‘air bombs’ and other nuisance fireworks in time for next Bonfire Night.
Each year, the period surrounding Hallowe'en and Bonfire Night sees an upsurge in the nuisance use of fireworks.
She lost her sight due to a Bonfire Night accident.
An urgent warning was issued today after a haul of display fireworks, which are powerful enough to kill, was stolen in a Bonfire Night raid on a firm near York.
With Bonfire Night and Hallowe'en less than a month away, police are saying incidents of fireworks being let off are already on the rise.
The Bonfire Night ended with everyone feeling happy and satisfied.
His dad broke it up and they took it to the big fire on the beach on Bonfire Night and burned it.
His warning comes on the day police are launching a crackdown on the sale of fireworks to youngsters in the run-up to Bonfire Night.
Police have announced a crackdown on yobs who set off fireworks before Bonfire Night.
Talk of democracy, however, brings us back to November 5 and that peculiarly British tradition of Bonfire Night.
In Leeds there are at least half-a-dozen organised firework displays planned for the weekend before Bonfire Night.
The incident comes as the government, councils and fire brigades watch to see how stricter laws on firework misuse work this Bonfire Night.
The ballot will take place throughout October, and a yes vote would see a strike on Friday 5 November - Bonfire Night.
Rogue firework traders hoping to cash in on the last Bonfire Night before a major clampdown have been warned to think again.
With Bonfire Night just around the corner there will be plenty of fireworks in the shops, which is a cause for concern to the fire brigade.
Seven boxes across the city exploded after hooligans, believed to be teenagers, threw fireworks into them in the run-up to Bonfire Night last year.
I've just got over Bonfire Night, just got over all the fireworks, the bangs and the smells, and then this happens.
Laws to control the sale of fireworks are being flouted in the run up to Bonfire Night, a Manchester Evening News investigation has revealed.
Fire crews came under attack from yobs 15 times in the Bonfire Night period, new figures show.