To be delighted that Sainsbury’s have decided not to sell fireworks this year?

[AlternativePerspective]

Now just hoping the other supermarkets follow in due course.

They used to only available for sale for the week preceding November 5th. I'm not sure why that changed. Perhaps it shouldn't have

The ban on the sale of fireworks in Australia has virtually killed Bonfire Night as an event. Even organised displays a very rare.

All of you people who say you love fireworks, just go to an organised display.

My closest display is £10 for adults/kids over 11 however I get put off more by the fact 50k people attend, so much congestion & queuing.

Tbf I never experienced firework related anti social behaviour in my area of London, just some private displays & Diwali celebrations which don't bother me.

Very happy about that. Sense over profit.

And I love it too, as it feels like I'm getting my own back for all that shit-scraping.

So you’re getting revenge on dogs by frightening them because they have lazy owners who don’t pick up after them? How unnecessarily unkind.

Great news the others should follow suite.
They`re doing the plastic for the environment.
Actually I think they should be banned because of the environment.

There are two types of license. Places like supermarkets have a short term one with date restrictions. You can buy them all year from a registered seller with an all year license.

We lost a much loved furry companion and member of our family because the bang of a neighbour’s firework literally scared him to death (he had a heart attack). Its been two years and we’re still heartbroken over it even now! 😞

How awful! This is precisely why they should be banned!

they’ve been letting them off around here for ages. I live in a deprived area and I don’t know where they get the money from. Doesn’t help that they tend to let them off after closing time either. I have a dog who literally shat himself at the sound of fireworks so I can sympathise with dog owners whose dogs hate them.

My opinion is that it should be organised displays, permitted on a few set dates only. Out of consideration for those who suffer badly from loud noises (particular conditions and SN) and for the love of animals.

There are two types of license. Places like supermarkets have a short term one with date restrictions. You can buy them all year from a registered seller with an all year license.

This is true ^^

I think it's a great idea, and am really pleased about it

Organised displays only from now on!!

I think it'll be a real shame if fireworks come off sale because of abuse, but it seems that might be the way it's going.

In my childhoods visiting a display was rare. Nobody in the family had a car and the displays are rarely in locations good for public transport. It was fireworks in the garden or none at all. (And only on or very close to Bonfire Night). When I have been to displays as an adult, the amount of traffic and bad parking, plus the huge crowds and the walking required, for a lot of people it's just not going to be suitable at all.

But maybe the consequences of misusing and abusing consumer fireworks are worse than some people never seeing any, I don't know m

I think the hate of fireworks has also grown as they have got increasingly louder and more invasive.

Okay, it's very many years ago that I was a child, but fireworks in people's back gardens were fine then because they didn't sound like you were surrounding by exploding bombs.

I hate them. Well done Sainsbury for taking this stand.

Modern fireworks are too dangerous and loud for the general public to have access to them. If we must have them they should be confined to public displays only.

The ban on the sale of fireworks in Australia has virtually killed Bonfire Night as an event. Even organised displays a very rare.

I don't think Bonfire Night is as much as a thing in the UK as it was when I was growing up, I think Halloween has probably replaced it a bit here as well.

Another reason not to shop there IMO.

I am scared of fireworks due to a phobia of fire, and really wish they were limited to organised displays. In the past couple of years on the Friday Saturday and Sunday nearest to the 5th they were being let off literally non-stop from around 5pm to after 11pm. I spent those evenings a complete nervous wreck, terrified to be in my own home, but scared to go outside either. An organised display, lasting much less than 6 hours,on one or two of those nights I could have coped with as I would have known it was being done safely and would end soonish. I do not understand why it is acceptable for the general public to be able to buy and let off explosives.

Well Aldi have there dirt cheap fireworks in and I believe Poundland are getting there’s shortly if they haven’t arrived yet.

Plenty of places still sell fireworks, I don't think Sainsbury's contribution will be missed tbh.

They do sell much bigger fireworks than my youth I admit, but It's still fun to have a home display. They could just get rid of the louder ones.

Dogs bark all year round and make more noise than fireworks IME. I hear dogs every single day of the year, not just for a few weeks!

Well done Sainsburies, hope this is the beginning of the end of private sale. Public displays only.

It's night after night for several weeks around the date, with pet animals getting frantic at hours and days of noise, horses and cattle and sheep panicking and injuring themselves in fields, and I live in a town full of new builds where the gardens are about eight foot square and crowded together, yet people release powerful fireworks to enjoy their firework party and take no responsibility whatsoever for where it goes or what happens after they light the fuse. Usually on people's roofs, into their gardens, onto the cars in the street, into the street itself which is a thoroughfare for an all night shopping centre. So far I've had to rush over and put out one burning on my mother's decking as it hit their window and she was panicking (another went in her pond and killed her fish) and had my car roof damaged by another one landing on it, and had to call the firebrigade/police for kids setting them off in the street and trying to start fires with them.

YANBU. I love fireworks but people don't use them responsibly. So I suppose if people can't be trusted to not let them of at all hours or as I've seen in London in the street it's fair enough.

I feel less safe taking the kids to organised displays than I do setting off a few the few Roman candles that we have in the garden.
The few we've been to have been overcrowded, full of idiots with sparklers, and I feel if a firework did go off course into the crowd it would be carnage. We ended up standing so far back that you couldn't really see anything.

I love fireworks but really would like to see a ban on them being sold to the public. Sensible people letting off a few fireworks in their gardens one night a year wouldn't be a problem, people could prepare for it, but that's not what happens is it?!

I live in a small village and over recent years its been ridiculous, it literally goes on for weeks and weeks, people randomly letting off fireworks at all times of the day and night. We are right on the moors, surrounded by farms and livestock on the moors, many people have horses. For the next month or so these idiots are going to cause a lot of distress for farmers, pet owners and parents of small children and there's just no need for it, too many people are just so bloody self involved. Animals die every year because of these morons, startled sheep/cows/ponies running into the road, horses bolting their fields or running into fences etc, for what?!

This is brilliant news

I would have thought organised displays also upset pets? Perhaps even more so, as the fireworks are bigger and louder. If that's the main reason, fireworks should be banned altogether, surely?

Bonfire Night celebrations have reduced a lot in the last 20 years, mostly in favour of Halloween, which retailers prefer because of the amount of sweets and tat they can sell, and no need for any kind of licence like they would for fireworks.

When I was a child (and this was only the 90s) Bonfire Night was still quite a big deal. My family still made a Guy to burn on the bonfire (there's nothing like that quaint British tradition of burning effigies...) and did firework displays in the garden. I have fond memories of Catherine Wheels setting fire to the garden fence... I think things have changed now that bonfires are banned in a lot of places and fireworks are heading that way. Once private fireworks are banned, it'll eventually be organised firework displays, either due to complaints or for environmental reasons. I doubt we'll still be celebrating Bonfire Night in 30 years' time.

l'm delighted by this. lt's not the responsible people who are the problem. lt's the idiots who start setting them off in September at all hours of the evening and night (and even through the day sometimes) and carry on until after New Year.
They should only be allowed at organised displays. That way anyone who wants to enjoy them can still do so, and it cuts the distress to a minimum for people and animals who are terrified by the noise of them.