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Dudley bonfire bangers ban for families
Thursday 16th September 2010, 1:44PM BST.
Fireworks parties would become a thing of the past under plans by Dudley council to ban private celebrations.
Proposals being put forward next week call for families be to barred from setting off fireworks themselves, meaning they would only be able to watch displays at organised events.
Leader of Dudley Council Anne Millward revealed the plan at the North Dudley area committee yesterday.
Councillor Millward said the move would help prevent anti-social behaviour and injuries caused by people setting off bangers at all times of day for months before and after Bonfire Night.
“They cause so much misery for people, from August until New Year,” she said.
She will be seeking the support of the fire service, police and MPs.
But grandmother-of-two Chris Attfield, aged 54, of Meon Rise, Pedmore, said banning people from holding fireworks parties would destroy years of history.
“It’s ridiculous. Banning people from using them in their own gardens is too much,” she added.
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Does this mean they will be banned for the Asian and Chinese festivals as well, or will it be as nornal and only the British taditions halted.
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we know the answer to that one
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Yes, it will clearly be for all festivals…
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Like hell. All non-British celebrations will still be allowed so as not to offend anyone. heaven forbid we would not want to offend the foreigners in this country!
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John-it ony mentions Bonfire night.
There would be race and religous implcations for the dudley dimwits to face,if ALL festivals are subject to this latest town hall idea.Possibly -your were being a bit sarkie with your post :-)
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Which British “taditions” have been halted?
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A rhetorical question. Divali and all the rest of it will carry on as per usual as not to upset minority groups. Bonfire night will be banned for the majority. I’d like to be shocked at this bonehead idea, but i’m not. Sad really.
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Truly excellent news. Bonfire night, the celebration of a terrorist act, used to be one night. Now it drags on for months, both before and after.
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Historically the fireworks and bonfires celebrate the failure of a terrorist act.
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What a load of rubbish! Do gooders with nothing better to do… tell them to look up bonfire night and the history of fireworks! I think it’s a disgrace!
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Sometimes they annoy me too.
That said this is interfering yet again with freedom.
The Nanny State seems to have found a capital : Dudley.
We have the same problem at my home in France and bangers etc are hard to get because they are liitle and were often thrown around in the streets.
But in no way would anyone in France accept such a dicktat in their own garden.Normally noise there has to stop at 10pm (old law) but can be invoked at any time now (new law).As for parties even in flats they are usually tolerated occasionally and even all night-which I don’t like.But if they happen too much in the same place people complain to the police and they usually appear fairly rapidly.Usually this ends with a negotiation and the end of the noise without trouble.On housing estates the police often give up completely for fear of causing a riot.
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This is so funny. you need to ban immature vandels buying and setting off fireworks not families who generally celebrate with fireworks. Things need to be in place for the brats not the poor innocent families. These council idiots who come up with such stupid ideas because they want to be promoted need to re think again. Just because the person or persons dont like firworks does not mean everybody else will feel the same way.
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Yet another silly idea by the inept Dudley MBC.
Just how is this going to be policed?
How are they going to stop retailers selling fireworks?
When are they going to approach local MP’s to support the idea and put forward a Bill to change the current laws?
Not thought through, a case of doors open, lights on but nobody in yet again!
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How exactly is this going to be enforced ?
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I am so pleased to here this news. This would help in stopping the heartache animal owners have with fireworks going off for hours on nights leading up to Bonfire Night. Our dog does not like the sound of fireworks at all and I am dreading the weeks leading up to November 5th, years ago fireworks only went off around that date now it is for weeks. I agree that it will help in preventing accidents and organised events will be much better and probably better attended.
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okay lets ban dogs from parks and public spaces ??? the yobs who have them dont pick up there mess and we get to tred in and smell our trainers or how about when a kid fall over and she cleans her hand with a wipe but the kid rubs her eyes and it get effected and she lose her eye becouse of that person.
please one rule for one and not the other dont forget 3 months of fire works not every day but you get a hole year of dog crap on the floor tho.
dont get me wrong i love dogs
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Nice one Mrs Kill joy. What next would you have banned…. more that 3 people at a bus stop in case they planning a terror attack?
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Bus queues are already technically illegal gatherings thanks to Herr Blair.
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Rightly so! The nonsense that are fireworks have been going on for far too long. The public shouldn’t have the right to make such noise and chaos.
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Planning to get rid of christmas, may day, remembrance Sunday and all the other special days which also been going on for a long time ? Maybe you would like everyone gagged and chained to their sofa so that they make no noise or chaos for you. Most of your discomfort is caused by the inappropriate use of fireworks, particularly by roaming youths and I whole heartedly agree this case. This is the point that needs to be tackled, not a Nanny State ban denying family fun.
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yet again ban something because the few spoil it for the majority its not nov 5th thats the problem its the lead up to it how will this stop the mindless getting fireworks and no i am not a young person
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I must agree how annoying it is when the exremely loud fireworks are let off for months on end but how on earth do they think they wil be able to stop people from buying and letting off their own fireworks? It’s ridiculous.
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This country gets worse… why dont we ban every celebration of the year!
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Why not just allow their use one or two days before and after each cultural event? Why punish everyone for the sake of a minority of morons? This is ridiculous and it wont’ work.
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To do such a thing as ban adults from having firework displays in their own garden is madness!
Glad i don’t live in Dudley but if it starts there no doubt it will come to a town near you!
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can anne millward tell us who do we call if someones letting fireworks off i am sure the police will love this one perhaps anne and her cronies would like to volunteer for street patrols i thought not
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You got rid of our swimming baths give us 52 bin bags tell us not to put cans, news papers and glass in . Now you tell us no bonfire fireworks parties remenber who votes you in
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WELL SAID
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Too right
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is this to ensure that everyone goes to Himley so they dont make a loss? and all the cutbacks we have to endure its nice to see that dudley can still afford to fund Stourbridge in Bloom ect ect whatever the council want eh !
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I’m afraid if this is all you have to worry about and feel sorry for yourself about then I feel really sorry for you!!
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Methinks Dudley Council are attempting to forstall Guy Fawkes from saving us all from the nanny state of Dudley. I would love to hear their explanation of how this ban would be implemented let alone enforced.
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This is the most stupid thing iv every read in years…….
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Wouldn’t have happened in my day!!!!!!!!!
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Just had a thought they caught Guy Faulkes just down the road a wall Heath.It must have been Dudley MBC who shopped him.
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Well done Dudley Council. How many animals (and humans) suffer due to the selfishness and lack of thought from the pyrotechnic prats who think that they can cause explosions whenever and wherever they want to – not to mention the brainless baseball capped chavs who terrorise old ladies with firecrackers. About time they were all banned – so many people are sick of all the noise and pollution from fireworks that lasts from Diwali into the New Year !
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We would not co-operate with a ban against our cultural rights……
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I would like counciller Millward to come round my house and try and stop me lighting fireworks. what a sight it would be seeing her fly up Halesowen Road in Netherton with a rocket lodged up her backside
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LOL
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Why not forbid the sale of fireworks until the week before the 5th.
The retailers will still be able to get some profit, but unless the vandals have stored them from the year before, or broken into a storage area and pinched some, the noise will be kept to a minimal periad.
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Im not from Dudley but they was to put in a ban in wolverhampton i would glad to be sent to jail as this is my tradition of my heratige i will celebrate its like saying to the YANKS that they carnt have a 4th of july come on people.
i buy 100 quid worth of fire works each year ranging from little ones for the kids and the big ones for the adults we have drinks for all the adults and pop for the kids and we have bangers and mash all ways any way just think how much does money this brings in its like holloween how much money new years eve.
i think this woman just wants to put her name in the paper to get some attention thats all
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Liked the comments !
And….after all how are they going to police all that with far less police after the cuts?…..
They have a great excuse over here in France in Drancy (twinned with Willenhall I think still) when they “sort” the priorities,especially at night, you get the reply like “Understand your concern,but unfortunately we have no vehicle available for the moment !” This can even happen after several calls. Given that Drancy has 80000 people and Dudley between 300000 and 400000 estimated and Dudley covering a far bigger area,as you say in England, “The mind boggles” !
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Why bother ploughing money into a scheme that cannot possibly be policed. How about targeting the shop keepers and the parents who sell the fireworks to the kids that cause the problem, they are the issue not me and my 4 year old daught who WILL be celebrating a historic victory against terrorists.
How about spending the money you save on this stupid law and fill in some of the pot holes that litter the borough?
THE WORLD IS GOING MAD!!!!!!
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The problem is how long the fireworks go on for. If it was just bonfire night that would be one thing but by us it goes one for weeks, even late at night, 11,12 pm. Too late when you have small kids.
What I really object to is the scrap men tooting and honking their horns. Far more of a nusiance than fireworks. Try being a shift worker and being woken up 3/4 times a day.but the council ‘cant’ do anything about that…
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I remember bonfire night being the only night fireworks were let off in celebration. Now it seems everyone lets them off at all times of night. The ruling should be no fireworks after 9pm at private bonfires.
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Typical its the familys who have an organised party in their own garden ON bondfire night who will suffer NOT the yobs who throw them around for months on end Ann Millward and her crew need to start thinking things out better or is this the totalitarian party?
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Yet again more of our culture being eroded!!
Its once a year,how many more of our traditions will disappear. It will soon be “unpolitically” correct to be British!! All of you moaning about the nuisance of fireworks are just another nail in this country”s coffin.
The popes assistant was/is right we are a THIRD WORLD ISLAND and we are just letting it happen!! We should be proud of our history not slamming it. Will all you moaners be saying the same when its Divali etc… Probably not, to frightened!!!!!
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Disgusting…..
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all smiling will also be banned this is Dudley after all
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Nice to see our idiotic council concentrating on the big issues again!
As for the animal lover brigade, how many people are injured or even killed due to irresponsible dog owners each year? Or kept awake at night by barking dogs all year round? Maybe we should ban them too?!
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NO!!!
Don’t they understand that this is an integral part of English culture, part of our history. It is also a celebration of the failure of a terrorist to undermine our country ant way of life. To disrespect this would be at our peril…and shame.
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What about the tradition of putting fireworks through letterboxes?
Is that to be banned too?
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If labour had come up with idea the tory press
would have said its up to the individuals
But folks its a tory councillor
Truth is its would be impossible to police
kid who are using them as weapons should have them took off them in the street if u can find one that is, well in the new year anyway!!
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could this be a cunning ploy to get everyone to pay to go to Himley?
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This is fantasic news a safer place in november where people and animals have some peace
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All those thinking “great news” don’t celebrate yet. This is only an idea, talk is cheap, and it will never happen as the Government has more pressing issues to deal with.
This councillor is just headline grabbing believing in her own importance.
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Why did our Grandfathers and Great Grandfathers die in two world wars to ensure that we had freedom to do as we want. Why should some stuck up person sitting behind a desk allday dictate to what we should or should not do.We are already losing so much of our Great British history, we should remember our ancestry. The majority of the British public respect the dangers associated with fireworks, and respect that care should be taken when setting off fireworks, it is just the few who spoil it for everyone.The law should be enforced that fireworks can only be brought a month before the lead up to 5th November, and not brought all year round as any can do by simply going onto the internet and searching the many sites that sell fireworks.Just another scam by Dudley council to ensure people have to go to their bonfire display and put money in their pockets.
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i think this is outragers!!!! i am not from dudley, but if this was to happen in wolverhampton then i’m sorry but i would still buy fireworks for myself and my family to enjoy in our own BACK GARDEN!!! who has the right to punish people for enjoying a special event that has happend for years and years, have these people not got families of there own!!!!!!! oh and what happends on new years eve when people loose off rockets to mark the end and beggining of a new year eh!!!!! THIS WORLD HAS GONE MAD!!!!! whatever next!!!!
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OMG! those who think this is a great idea…need to get a life! Obviously boring people!
I’d like to see them try to stop people having there traditional bonfire nights with fireworks, jaket tatoes and gray peas!!!
HAHA these councillors make me laugh.
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Sam I don’t agree with an outright ban, but look at the problems we have in this region. This move is a symptom of the utter garbage we have here who get a kick out of making people’s lives a misery. I’d personally just restrict the sale of the said items, and also restrict where they can be used. I think most of the public would agree. All you hear for months on end in this region is morons losing these things into the air..at all hours..to annoy other people. It’s come to this because their numbers aren’t small.
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Last night at 12pm our neighbourhood was woken by what sounded like a bomb going off the disturbance continued for approximately half an hour whilst other large fireworks were let off, is this fair. If fireworks were sold in small boxes without bangers and these thunderous explosives, which I am sure scare small children, then perhaps families could celebrate Guy Fawks in their own gardens without disturbing their neighbours. There should be a limit on the size of fireworks on sale to the general public.
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I wonder if it something to do with boosting ticket sales for the council-run Himley bonfire?
When I was a child I used to look forward all autumn to the small bonfire and fireworks display we had in our back garden.
Of course, nobody is allowed to enjoy themselves now without the town hall bureaucrats overseeing the proceedings.
The large organised displays are more about ego trips for the councillors than they are about fun for youngsters.
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You are all missing the point…
This is a JOBS CREATION SCHEME!!!
with all the unemployment and job losses..
there will be opportunities as we will have to employ trained Firework enforcement offices driving around in bonfire detector vans..
Think of the jobs and investment into the local economy in this time of cut-backs!
Cuz I doubt if the councilors are going to travel round each night looking for illegal fire works??
or have I misunderstood the reality of how this daft idea will work…
Quick I saw a rocket over there…
which garden did is come from????
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nice
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And they expect to get our votes,I like thousands of others will not vote again,i refuse to vote for kill joys and do gooders.
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