Bonfire season highlights

Sussex bonfire events stretch from September right through to November these days, and, as our selection of Eastbourne bonfire photos showed, the season is now well underway.

The region's two big forthcoming bonfires are Lewes (on Guy Fawkes' Night itself, Friday November 5) and Battle (November 6), but if those notorious nights out are a bit too hectic for some there's plenty of small and medium sized events taking place throughout the region beforehand and afterwards (see Related Listings, below).

Excitingly, East have a 'Did you know?' Guy Fawkes Fact! Which a bloke down the pub told us. Here goes:

St Peter's School in York (founded in 627 AD, and thus, incredibly, thought to be the third oldest school in the world) doesn't celebrate bonfire night, for the honourable reason that Guy Fawkes himself went to school there. Bless them, that's loyalty.

Anyway, whatever you do for bonfire this year, just remember the Firework Code, and be sure to frighten the kids by watching the traumatic safety film below.