fireworks

But did the Farage fireworks, appearing to dominate the discourse, in some ways, aid Plaid campaigners' efforts to urge Labour voters to back them to stop Reform?

Kallie, now 21, said her mum messaged her at 22:31 asking if it was finished "because she'd heard the bang and she thought it was fireworks".

That came after the Supreme Court this month eased a blanket ban on fireworks to allow the use of the less-polluting "green" crackers -- developed to reduce particulate emission.

Irish police have been attacked with missiles and fireworks at a protest outside a hotel used to house asylum seekers in Dublin.

They have thrown “rocks, sticks, and a mortar, and launched M80 fireworks at federal officers, assaulted federal officers, shined lasers at officers’ eyes, and doxed federal officers,” they wrote.