A HEREFORDSHIRE fireworks display is promising it will be better than ever before when it returns this autumn.
Kington Fireworks said autumn is closing in fast and it was starting to organise this year's display.
With November 5, Guy Fawkes Night, falling on a "very busy Saturday", the annual display will be held the previous weekend.
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Taking place at the Recreation Ground in the north Herefordshire town on Saturday, October 29, the event is promised to be "even better than last year" – with 2021's event billed as the best ever.
So with the best year expected in 2022, the display has also revealed some of its plans, with a special twist this year.
As a tribute to Queen Elizabeth II, who died aged 96 this month, there will be red, white and blue in the display.
The display will take place at Kington Recreation Ground, in Park Avenue. Picture: Rob Davies
Organisers said they will be using fireworks from Europe and the Far East and quality Japanese shells for a finale, shouting out main sponsor Niteforce Fireworks.
The annual event raises money for good causes through its ticket sales, and last year donated £250 to Midlands Air Ambulance and £250 to The Fire Fighters Charity.
Bonfire night is one of the UK's stranger traditions, marking Guy Fawkes' failed attempt to blow up Parliament in 1605.
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More than 400 years later, the tradition shows no signs of dying out as people prepare to gather around bonfires and watch fireworks.
It started on November 5, 1605, when people in London were encouraged to celebrate the fact the King had avoided assassination by lighting bonfires.
This became tradition, with the bonfires accompanied by fireworks from the 1650s onwards, while burning a model of Fawkes or other notable figures was introduced around 1673.
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