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Dozens of firework displays have been cancelled this weekend due to Storm Ciaran.
Earlier this month the Mirror reported councils in some major cities including Manchester, Nottingham and Glasgow, have put a stop to any Guy Fawkes displays this year over budgetary concerns. Now there is another reason why Bonfire Night may be seen as a damp squib.
The ferocious winds and rains of Storm Ciaran have led local authorities and organisers across the country to cancel a number of displays, fearful that shooting rockets up into the stormy night's sky won't be safe, or that the inclement weather will force punters to stay home.
The storm has been wreaking havoc across the UK and Europe (Maxime Le Pihif/SIPA/REX/Shutterstock)While the worst of the weather has hopefully blown over, some 80 flood warnings are in place with more than 220 flood alerts stretching up through the country, after the south coast and the Channel Islands were battered with heavy rain and gusts of up to 100mph on Thursday.
The extreme weather looks set to bring downpours and strong winds to Scotland and parts of northern England on Friday. Nearly 150,000 homes were left without power and by 4pm on Thursday, around 11,300 properties still had no electricity.
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Below is a non-comprehensive list of the fireworks displays which have been cancelled so far. If you know of another that has been called off, please email [email protected]
- Beamish Hall in County Durham
- Spennymoor Town Council in County Durham
- Segednum fireworks in Tyneside (postponed to Friday evening)
- Heaton Park in Manchester
- Heveningham Hall in Suffolk
- Undley Farm in Suffolk
- Saltwell Park in Tyne and Wear
- Lindsey Rose in Suffolk
- Caistor Bonfire and Fireworks in Lincolnshire
Forest Recreation Ground, Nottingham
- Thetford Fireworks Spectacular in Norfolk (rescheduled to 12)
- Wroxham Barns' Low-Bang Fireworks Display in Norfolk (cancelled on Thursday, Friday still going ahead)
- Hook and Hatchet Inn in Kent
- Weston Grand Pier in Somerset
- Sprites Primary Academy in Suffolk
- The Ross-on-Wye Lions Club in Hertfordshire
Big Boom, Norwich city centre
- Feckenham firework display in Worcestershire
- Dullingham in Suffolk
- Gravesham, Gravesend
- Port Eliot House in St Germans, Cornwall (postponed until next weekend)
- Meifod in Powys
- Welshpool in Powys
- Colwyn Bay in Denbighshire
- Orley Farm School in Harrow, London
- Clissold Park and Victoria Park in Hackney, London
- Southwark Park, Crystal Palace Park, Kingsmeadow Fireworks and Blackheath, Lewisham, London
- Harborough showground fireworks in Leicestershire (postponed to November 9)
- Glasgow Green
Banff, Aberdeenshire
- South Park, Darlington
- Stand Park Road, Chesterfield
Storm Ciaran is also playing havoc on mainland Europe. Record-breaking rain produced floods in a vast swath of Italy's Tuscany region yesterday, pushing into the country overnight trapping residents in their homes, inundating hospitals and overturning cars. At least five people were killed, bringing the storm's death toll in western Europe to 12 on Friday.
Italian Civil Protection authorities said 200 millimeters (nearly 8 inches) of rain fell in a three-hour period, from the city of Livorno on the coast to the inland valley of Mugello, and caused riverbanks to overflow. Video shows at least a dozen cars getting pushed down a flooded road.
The dead in Tuscany included an 85-year-old man found in the flooded ground floor of his home near the city of Prato, north of Florence, and an 84-woman who died while trying to push water out of her home in the same area, according to Italian news agency ANSA. Another victim was reported in Livorno.