Bonfire Night has never been just a spectator sport.

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For generations, families have put on their own displays and made an evening of it in the back garden. Those evenings are really special, no matter how impressive or modest the fireworks are.

I love big professional displays too – the people who put them on are enormously skilled and the results are spectacular. There’s no way a family setting off a handful of fireworks in the garden will compete with that, but the point is they organised something themselves and brought people together. And that's the part of Bonfire Night I'm concerned we could lose.

The government has recently been consulting on tighter fireworks regulations, including lower noise limits and restrictions on certain products available to the public. By the government's own estimate, that could affect roughly one third of consumer firework product types. The consultation closed earlier this month, and ministers haven't yet announced what they'll do. No one is........

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