Community action to tackle the anti-social behaviour around fireworks in West Lothian could now help set guidelines for communities across Scotland.
MSPs from the Scottish Parliament’s Criminal Justice Committee have visited Blackburn to hear how local people got together to tackle the annual Bonfire night “war zone” of firework misuse.
In 2018 police attended multiple incidents in the town where gangs of youths threw fireworks at pedestrians and cars. Video footage published afterwards showed rockets exploding in a residential street after apparently being thrown at a police van.
