Issue 33

(UK only)

(Outside UK only)

• The Fireworks Bill: If you think it's just about training, you should read this, and wave goodbye to Cat 3. The most detailed analysis available
• Hong Kong Hand-over Display: Mark Lancaster of Kimbolton Fireworks tells the story of the company's display
• The News from Down Under: Barry Sturman's Antipodean Jottings
• Internet Round-up: Paul Tierney features the argument over whether scissors are suitable to cut fuse
• Spain/Malta: Rob Driessen returns to Valencia and Malta
• British Fireworks Championship: Natasha Webb considers the competitors and describes the displays
• Orange, California: Chris Squyres presents his annual report on the fireworks available
• US Update: A new feature by Jack Drewes which tells the story of the struggle in the US and South Africa to survive in an increasingly firework-hostile world
• Pain's and Wessex: the Turbulent Years: John Bennett reveals the scenes behind the move to Wiltshire
• The Tom Smith Report: on the Fireworks Bill
• The Field of Stars: Paul Birch provides a 1997 PGI Convention report
• Defending the Pinwheel's Honour: Lou Nadin does it with his usual style
• Letter from America: Larry Crump has the news from the States
• Jersey Record Breakers: Sam Woodward designed the firing system; Terry McDonald arranged the fireworks. Sam tells how the rocket shoot broke the record

and...

• Pyrotechno File: A new series of information for those requiring training and jobs
• Book Review: Firemagic - the history of firework companies in Germany
• Books and Publications: six new items
• Round-up of recent news
• Pyro Smiles
• Your letters, including letters from Ron Lancaster and Lou Nadin

with...

• Pain's Chinese fireworks - in 1915
• It had to be blue touch paper - even in 1766
• Royal Gunpowder Mills to open
• The future of Standard Fireworks
• ICI pulls out of chemicals
• Computer firing systems
• Invasion of fire-site causes problems at Bristol
• Show pulled because of special effects dangers
• Another chemistry course from the Kosankes - and reflections on the last
• New idea from Fantastic
• Indian crackers break Chinese monopoly
• New trade directories
• Powell's Fireworks surface after forty years
• Benson & Hedges firework competition threatened by ban on tobacco sponsorship
• British victory at Vancouver
• Power of Houston display; 'Pyrotechnic Artists of Texas' formed
• Guy Fawkes in US
• Belle Vue - Ron Lancaster remembers
• Jumping crackers - Lou Nadin recalls them
• That mysterious back-page ad!
• More on the shell ban - and the new firework regulations
• A way round the shell-ban
• The dark secrets of those who want to restrict our fireworks