Bang to rights on fireworks

WITH all the complaints starting about the noise from fireworks, I was surprised to read on a Government website of the restricted occasions 
that fireworks can be let off legally.

Fireworks (including sparklers) can only be set off legally, on four days per year: Bonfire Night, when the cut off is midnight, New Year’s Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year, when the cut off is 1am.

The law says you must not set off or throw fireworks (including sparklers) in the street or other public places.

So since many bonfires and fireworks displays don’t take place on Bonfire Night, and are often held in public parks, they are, in fact, illegal and could be opening the organisers up to litigation.

Trust’s recipe for trouble

From: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Court, Bridlington.

I HAVE recently had two minor operations in Bridlington hospital and received exemplary treatment.

I was dismayed to learn that its NHS trust plans to close the kitchens in Bridlington hospital with the loss of 13 jobs. The patients’ meals will then be sent from York. Apart from the loss of 
nutrition in this transport, what happens when Garrowby Hill is closed because of snow? A large order of fish and chips and mushy peas from the local chippy?

Warm words for thermals

From: Hilary Andrews, Wentworth Court, Nursery Lane, Leeds.

THE rises in energy prices 
keep on coming. I invested in stylish thermal underwear 
and found that my bills are actually going down. I think 
that you have to think 
outside the box to combat the higher cost of living and being warm!