described as “distressing” by depute council leader Paul Kelly, when a lack of organised public displays due to coronavirus restrictions meant many more individual fireworks were set off in neighbourhoods around Monklands and across the authority area – with two houses in Motherwell being set ablaze.
Council officers will now “work to encourage local suppliers to stock ‘quieter’ fireworks for public sale”; while the future awareness campaign will also highlight “precautions that can be taken to mitigate risks” around firework use.The authority will also write to both Westminster and Holyrood, with each parliament having certain relevant powers – asking respectively for a legal fireworks noise limit to be introduced by the UK government, and.