Here in my neck of the Lincolnshire Backwoods, people were setting fireworks off from as soon as it was dark yesterday, around 4:30, and it went on all evening until around 1 a.m. I find it ironic that, at a time when many people are complaining bitterly that they are struggling to live in the middle of a cost of living crisis, some - seemingly many, if last night’s re-enaction of the opening barrage on the first day of the Battle of The Somme is anything to go by - can afford to burn money, metaphorically if not literally, on fireworks.

No firework ban here - Fireworks - the law in the UK