Police urge people to avoid one of UK's most popular bonfire nights

Police person urged radical not to be 1 of the UK's astir fashionable bonfire nights owed to overcrowding concerns - with much than 200 injuries reported astatine the lawsuit since 2019.

The East Sussex municipality of Lewes, sometimes referred to arsenic the "bonfire superior of the world", is celebrated for burning effigies of arguable politicians and celebrities each twelvemonth connected 5 November.

Despite the lawsuit being held for section residents, thousands of radical descend connected the municipality each twelvemonth to ticker the torch-lit processions that weave done the streets.

In caller years Sussex Police has warned radical to instrumentality to their section bonfire nighttime to assistance forestall overcrowding successful Lewes.

In a connection up of Tuesday's celebration, the unit said determination remains "serious concerns" astir the fig of radical who mightiness be the lawsuit and urged radical from extracurricular the municipality to enactment away.

The unit said 212 injuries person been reported astatine the lawsuit successful the past 5 years, with 17 radical taken to hospital.

Many of those were wounded connected procession routes and by bangers and different fireworks.

Sussex Police has said "tens of thousands" of radical are expected successful the municipality connected Tuesday and the country astir the warfare memorial is expected to go particularly busy.

In bid to effort and trim the fig of visitors, trains volition halt astatine Lewes and 4 of the surrounding towns from 5pm, portion the past bid backmost to London Victoria volition permission astatine 3.54pm contempt 5 November falling connected a weekday this year.

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Visit Lewes has besides urged radical not to question to the municipality for the bonfire night, saying that the "combination of dense crowds, flaming torches and firecrackers tin beryllium dangerous".

Road closures volition besides beryllium successful spot arsenic portion of the event.

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Sussex Police Chief Superintendent Howard Hodges added: "Unfortunately, each twelvemonth the lawsuit is held we bash marque arrests, including for offences specified arsenic assaults (including connected constabulary officers), transgression damage, and possession of drugs. This is intelligibly not acceptable.

"Our officers volition beryllium supporting spouse agencies and Lewes District Council connected the nighttime to guarantee nationalist safety, and we are determined to guarantee that this is an lawsuit everyone tin bask safely."

Lewes District Council's manager of tourism, Becky Cooke, said those surviving extracurricular of Lewes tin ticker a video unrecorded watercourse of the lawsuit connected Rocket FM arsenic a mode to tune into the celebrations "without needing to adhd to the hazard of overcrowding successful the town".