Fireworks were a terrible problem this year. Between Oct. 31 and Nov. 3, Waterloo Regional Police took 362 calls complaining about bad behaviour involving fireworks.

Fireworks were portable bombs with blue-touchpaper fuses. Newsagents sold bangers (ten pence a pop), slender rockets and a box of matches ... simple sticks of bamboo that went bang when tossed into a ...

Taking place on bonfire night – November 5 – thousands of people enjoyed the whizz, pop and bangs of the annual display, ...