Safety concerns over new firework

With Bonfire night approaching, doctors at Sussex Eye Hospital have issued a warning of the dangers of a new type of unregulated agricultural firework which left two people blind and three with a lifelong risk of glaucoma in the Lewes East Sussex on November 5 2011.

The warning came in a letter to the British Medical Journal which said Police enquiries the into the fireworks established that they were a derivative of 'rope bangers' or 'deer scarers,' which have a slow burning, time controlled fuse that ignites multiple explosives along the rope. When cut down, the fuse and explosive can be lit and thrown.