With alternative displays and cost cutting measures at the forefront of thinking at Town Halls across the region, people will have to look elsewhere for Catherine Wheels and rockets on Merseyside as non of the local councils are putting on displays. Though some have welcomed this news, it doesn't mean there won't be events elsewhere. We've been on the streets of Liverpool to ask - what you think of fireworks.
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00:00 With alternative displays and cost-cutting measures at the forefront
00:04 of town halls across the region, people will have to look elsewhere for
00:08 Catherine wheels and rockets on Merseyside. Though some have welcomed this
00:12 news, it doesn't mean there won't be events elsewhere. We've been on the
00:17 streets of Liverpool to ask what you think of fireworks.
00:21 I hate them. Organised displays only. They've started this week, kids are setting them off everywhere.
00:31 Dogs get upset, us oldie wrinklies get upset. Ban them. Ban them.
00:39 I love them but my dog doesn't. But I miss all the displays when I was a kid when I used to go to
00:45 Sefton Park and they had a Disney display, it was brilliant wasn't it?
00:49 I do not like fireworks. I don't agree with the fireworks. They're very pet unfriendly.
00:55 Not just your pets that get frightened but also the wild animals. You've got to
01:00 think of the wild animals and then yes there are silent fireworks but then
01:06 you've got to consider all the debris that's left. Where's all that going?
01:10 It's just more pollution. I do not agree with the fireworks at all.
01:14 Children get hurt and they're dangerous. Too dangerous? No. They're too powerful.
01:20 Not what they used to be, they're too powerful. No. You can have fireworks but not bangers.
01:24 They frighten children, they frighten animals, there's no need for them.
01:28 But the nice ones like that, they're fine. But not the bangers. You should ban them.
01:32 Well the bangs are the worst. I mean the pretty ones. I mean I've been abroad, I've
01:37 been in Greece and Italy and I've seen lovely firework displays but not like
01:43 here and like every night this week. Well I've been to Spain when it was like
01:49 about October and like their Halloween goes on for about a month and they're
01:54 always going off there till about December I think even January but they
01:57 don't mess around over there. They have, you know, it's safe. They have different
02:01 countries competing for firework displays and people go and they gather
02:06 all around the pier, watch all these marvellous fireworks. It costs lots of money.
02:12 Why? Just for people to look, have a look and like I said before, all the
02:17 debris, all the money gone to waste, put that money to better use than just watching it.
02:22 Should be harder to buy. Not just little kids in the back gardens or whatever, no.
02:30 They go off in about September because I live by the railway there, you know.
02:34 Disused railway and they set them off all night, frightening the dogs, you know,
02:39 on the cat. It's not fair. There's no doubt in the wrong hands fireworks can
02:44 prove dangerous. Apart from on certain occasions such as Bonfire Night, it's
02:50 against the law for anyone to set off fireworks between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m.
02:55 You can also be fined an unlimited amount and even imprisoned for up to six months
03:00 for selling or using fireworks illegally.