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North Londoners flock to the Totteridge Millhillans Cricket Club annual display, featuring a bonfire from 6.30pm, and fireworks set to music from 7.40pm. There will also be plenty of stalls selling hot snacks as well as licensed bars serving mulled wine.

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Best Bonfire Night Firework Displays in London 2023

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Discover where to celebrate Bonfire Night 2023 with our complete guide to the best fireworks displays in London.

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He's world famous thanks to his distinctive moustached face, which has been adopted as a mask by anti capitalists, but Guy Fawkes is best known for failing to blow up Westminster Palace.

On November 5, 1605, Guy was foiled as he plotted to destroy the Houses of Parliament during state opening and kill all inside it - including the King - in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot.

But aside from that, what do we know about the conspirator who was just 35 when he died?

He was born on April 13th 1570 in Stonegate in York, and was educated at St. Peter's School in York, preferring to be called Guido Fawkes.

As a boy he lived near York with his father Edward and his mother Edith.

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His father was a Protestant and worked as a solicitor for the religious court of the church. However, in 1579 he died and three years later his mother remarried a man called Denis Bainbridge, a Catholic. So the young Guy converted.

Converting to Catholicism in those days was a big deal, as the ruling religion was the Church of England, which would not tolerate Roman Catholicism.

It was incredibly hard to worship, so devotees were driven underground - and it was from that oppression that the plot sprung.

There have been rumours that Guy met and married Maria Pulleyn in 1590 - but there are no parish records to show this, so it is open to dispute.

So fervent were Guy's religious beliefs that he first choose to leave Protestant England and enlist in the Spanish army in Holland in the Eighty Years War.

There he won a reputation for great courage and cool determination and this is where he gained experience with explosives, and also where he decided to call himself Guido - probably because it sounded Spanish.

In 1604 at Ostend, Guy met another Englishman called Thomas Winter, who had also been in Spain trying to drum up support for English Catholics.

As the two travelled back to London, Thomas told Guy that he and his friends - including Yorkshiremen John and Christopher Wright, from Welwick, and Robert Catesby - were going to take action, but needed the help of a military man who would not be recognised by the authorities.

Guy was not the mastermind behind the plot despite his subsequent fame - that was Warwickshire-born Robert Catesby, the son of a persecuted Roman Catholic.

Catesby, a wealthy man, knew most of his co-conspirators through a network of friendships with various Roman Catholic families.

The exception was Guy, who he likely to have met when he was briefly employed as a footman by Anthony Browne, 2nd Lord Montague - a family which Catesby's sister had married into.

October 18, 1605, is a crucial date with regards to the conspiracy as it is when the conspirators discussed how Catholic peers might be spared from the planned explosion.

This led to the famed 'Monteagle Letter' written on October 26 to catholic MP William Parker, the 4th Baron Monteagle, warning him not to come near Westminster.

In order to get close enough to their targets a cellar below the Houses of Parliament was rented by the members of the plot, which was filled with 36 barrels of gunpowder.

There was enough to completely destroy the building and damage buildings within a one mile radius of it.

The plot was undone when the anonymous letter sent to the Baron of Monteagle, warning him not to go to the House of Lords, was made public.

This led to a search of Westminster Palace being ordered and in the early hours of November 5, Guy was discovered guarding the explosives.

Initially he pretended to be a servant and said the wood belonged to his master Thomas Percy but when this was reported to the King, and the fact that Percy was a Catholic, the King ordered a second search. The gunpowder was found and Guy was arrested.

During his involvement in the Gunpowder Plot, Fawkes called himself John Johnson and when he was arrested and asked to give his name, this is the name he gave.

Shortly after being found early in the morning of November 5, the Privy Council met in the King's bedchamber and Fawkes was brought in under guard and asked explain why he wanted to kill him and blow up Parliament.

He answered that he regarded the King as a disease since he had been excommunicated by the Pope.

Asked why he he needed such a huge quantity of gunpowder, he apparently said: "To blow you Scotch beggars back to your own native mountains!"

Guy was sent to the Tower of London. King James indicated in a letter of 6 November that "The gentler tortours are to be first used unto him, and so by degrees proceeding to the worst, and so God speed your goode worke"

And over the next four days, he was questioned and tortured on the "rack" and eventually confessed and gave the names of his conspirators.

His signature on the written confession after torture, which is still held by the National Archives, was very faint and weak, and another taken a few days later was much bolder indicating how weakened he must have been by torture.

Fawkes and others involved were tried on January 31st 1606 and then sentenced to be hung, drawn and quartered in the Old Palace Yard in Westminster.

The Attorney General Sir Edward Coke told the court that each of the condemned would be drawn backwards to his death, by a horse, his head near the ground.

They were to be "put to death halfway between heaven and earth as unworthy of both".

Their genitals would be cut off and burnt before their eyes, and their bowels and hearts removed.

They would then be decapitated, and the dismembered parts of their bodies displayed so that they might become "prey for the fowls of the air".

But Guy escaped this horrific fate, as immediately before his execution he jumped from the scaffold where he was to be hanged and broke his neck, thus avoiding the agony of the mutilation.

He also did not have his body parts distributed to "the four corners of the kingdom", to be displayed as a warning to other would-be traitors.

Despite being involved in what is basically a terrorist plot, Guy Fawkes was named the 30th Greatest Briton in a poll conducted by the BBC in 2002.

Today the word "guy" is used to refer to a man but originally it was a term for an "ugly, repulsive person" in reference to Fawkes.

Straw effigies made of Guy Fawkes and thrown onto bonfires to remember the Gunpowder Plot were also known as "guys" and over time the meaning has blurred.

Following the thwarting of the plot Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the King's escape from assassination by lighting bonfires and this tradition continues today.

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The history of Bonfire night and the man behind the gunpowder plot

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He's world famous thanks to his distinctive moustached face, which has been adopted as a mask by anti capitalists, but Guy Fawkes is best known for failing to blow up Westminster Palace.

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The 5th November has always had a very special place in my heart. Of course, it is Guy Fawkes' Night, which in itself has great historical significance for the UK. I highly recomm

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Hotel bosses have apologised after rogue fireworks shot into crowds during a free display at their premises on Saturday evening.

The Antrobus hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire was hosting a fireworks night for guests when some of the explosives projected beyond the safety cordon, causing minor injuries.

Eyewitnesses heavily criticised the hotel's handling of the incident and reported that victims - including a number of young children - suffered burns.

An ambulance service spokesman said 14 people were treated, although none suffered serious injuries. The venue added that no one was taken to hospital.

Katie Millward, a 25-year-old chemist from Andover, said: "When the fireworks started, one went to the sky, one went into the crowd close to us, then one landed on the picnic bench where we were sitting. We started running but there was nowhere to run to. The doors were locked to get into the building.

"After one landed on our table we ran and still they were firing. They just seemed to keep on coming into the crowd."

Jodie Hobbs, 35, from Amesbury, criticised staff, who allegedly continued to serve alcohol after the incident. She described the event as "awful".

The mother of five said: "It was so busy. The fireworks went off at 8pm, then all I saw were fireworks coming towards people in the crowd and sparks everywhere, smoke, everyone screaming and turning around to try and get back inside."

A hotel statement read: "A single display box, containing multiple fireworks, malfunctioned at [Saturday's] display. Regrettably, despite the safety cordon exceeding the manufacturer's guidelines, some projectiles ejected towards the crowd line. The display was immediately ended and emergency services called. It is now apparent that thankfully no serious injuries occurred, with all injured treated at the scene."

Earlier, the hotel said it wanted to "apologise profusely for this very regrettable situation" in a short post on its Facebook page.

The statement continued: "The hotel's team put on [Saturday's] free event as a community event and worked diligently with the suppliers to ensure that [the] event was safe and exceeded requirements in respect of safety and distance.

"We are mortified about what has occurred and would like to apologise to all those affected. Please rest assured that a full investigation will take place."

The venue remained closed for the rest of Saturday, but reopened on Sunday.

A South Western ambulance service spokesman said: "We attended and treated 14 people, none of whom had serious injuries and none of whom needed to be taken to hospital."

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Fireworks shoot into crowd at hotel's bonfire night display

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Hotel bosses have apologised after rogue fireworks shot into crowds during a free display at their premises on Saturday evening. The Antrobus hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire was hosting a fireworks night for guests when some of the explosives projected beyond the safety cordon, causing minor injuries.

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BONFIRE night is TONIGHT and many people will be outside celebrating.

But can you set off fireworks in public and how old do you need to be to buy them? Here's the lowdown on the UK rules...

Is it illegal to set off fireworks in the street?

It is illegal to set off fireworks in the street in the UK.

The law says you must not set off or throw fireworks (including sparklers) in the street or other public places.

If you're thinking about using fireworks you should also check with your council to find out about any local rules for setting them off.

You can be fined up to £5,000 and imprisoned for up to six months for selling or using fireworks illegally - you could also get an on-the-spot fine of £90.

How old do you need to be to buy fireworks and are the rules different on Bonfire Night?

"Adult" fireworks cannot be purchased by under 18s - this doesn't include things like party poppers.

You must not set off fireworks between 11pm and 7am, but the rules are different on Bonfire Night - as well as a few other occasions:

Bonfire Night - cut off is midnight

New Year's Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year - cut off is 1am

You can only buy fireworks, including sparklers, from registered sellers for private use on certain dates:

15 October to 10 November

26 to 31 December

Three days before Diwali and Chinese New Year

At other times you can only buy fireworks from licensed shops.

Why do we celebrate Bonfire Night?

Bonfire Night is celebrated in the UK by lighting bonfires, burning of "Guys" and setting off fireworks.

The celebration was actually enshrined in law a few months after the attempt and remained on the statute books until 1859.

Fireworks are also set off throughout the land as they are powered by gunpowder, representing the explosives that were never used.

The only place in the UK that does not celebrate the day is Fawkes' former school, St Peter's in York. They refuse to burn a "Guy" out of respect for one of their own.

Yeoman of the guard search the cellars of the Houses of Parliament before the state opening in November.

However, it is a ceremonial gesture rather than an actual terrorist hunt - they even use old lanterns.

The actual cellar that Fawkes and his co-conspirators tried to blow up no longer exists, having been destroyed in a fire in 1834.

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The lowdown on setting off fireworks in the street and Bonfire Night rules

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BONFIRE night is TONIGHT and many people will be outside celebrating. But can you set off fireworks in public and how old do you need to be to buy them? Here's the lowdown on the UK rules... It is illegal to set off fireworks in the street in the UK.

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The River of Light is back for a second year to celebrate Bonfire Night in Liverpool.

Huge fireworks displays will take place at the Pier Head and at New Brighton in Wirral , with thousands expected to attend.

Last year's event drew some criticism after people complained of not being able to hear the music and not getting a good view of the fireworks.

This year, the council has drafted in Titanium Fireworks, who are the team behind the New Year's Eve displays in London and the Edinburgh Hogmanay event - so we're expecting them to pull out all the stops and put on a spectacular show.

We will be following tonight's event as it happens, and bringing you plenty of pictures, live footage and reaction from the crowds.

Get involved by tweeting us your pictures @EchoWhatsOn or sending via our Facebook page .

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River of Light fireworks on Bonfire Night - as it happened

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The River of Light is back for a second year to celebrate Bonfire Night in Liverpool. Huge fireworks displays will take place at the Pier Head and at New Brighton in Wirral , with thousands expected to attend.

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Latecomer: Am I too late for the bonfire?
Host: No jump up there on the sticks, there is room next to that Guy.

How come the village Guy Fawkes won the Nobel Peace Prize?  'Cause he was outstanding in his field'.

How is it that one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start your Guy Fawkes bonfire?

Also remember on Guy Fawkes Night, of all nights:
Keep the Pope off the moon.  Spike Milligan