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You cannot buy or use fireworks if you're under 18, and you must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, except on certain occasions
Legacy resources to support firework safety and raise awareness produced for a product safety campaign during 2021.
A community guide to organising bonfires and fireworks.
We have issued a safety bulletin to the cruise industry to highlight the importance of using anchoring equipment within its intended design parameters.
Guidance for health professionals, port health and other agency staff and the crew of affected vessels for the identification and management of norovirus outbreaks on cruise vessels.
New analysis of victims from fires with fireworks, by injury severity and type.
An independent research report.
Location: 16 miles south of Beachy Head, England.
Location: Undergoing a refit at Southampton Docks, England.
Location: On passage in the North Atlantic
Location: Off Auckland, New Zealand.
New analysis of primary fires caused by fireworks.
Urgent recommendations issued to Maritime Administration of the UK, Flag States, Cruise lines and operators/managers of passenger vessels.
Location: Off Jamaica.
Location: Undergoing sea trials in the Bay of Naples, ltaly.
Location: Near the North Shipwash Buoy, to the north of Harwich Haven Authority jurisdictional limits on the east coast of England.
You need to register with the Department of Justice to sell fireworks in Northern Ireland
You need to get permission from your council to have a fireworks display between 11pm and 7am.
Location: Dover Strait off the south east coast of England.
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