Fireworks

Revellers urged to ditch New Year's Eve fireworks as survey reveals extent of equine suffering

“We are pleading with people to think about their own actions this New Year’s Eve”

This has to stop: rallying call to owners over fireworks menace *H&H Plus*

Welfare charity’s survey aims to assess impact of fireworks on horses

“Horses have a natural and innate flight response; and we know some fare badly when local fireworks are set off and we are hoping to understand the national picture in greater detail”

Police hunt person who threw lit fireworks from car at horses and walkers

“It is only by chance that nobody has suffered serious injuries in these incidents”

Fireworks thrown from car at rider and carriage-drivers in shocking incidents

“It wasn’t just us, they endangered everyone who was on the road.

Owner of horse who broke spine joins mounting calls for tougher firework laws

More pressure is being put on the Government to introduce tighter controls over the sale and use of fireworks after the RSPCA was received 82 animal-related calls in two weeks

Devastation as zebra foal dies after local fireworks displays

“She was so full of energy and life and she was a very healthy young zebra”

Horse to lose eye after fireworks incident

More than £13,400 has been raised by well-wishers towards the gelding’s vet fees, of which the remainder will be split between the SSPCA and World Horse Welfare

More action needed, say MPs, as Government stands firm on firework law *H&H Plus*

Fireworks cause second mare to abort foal: owner vows to campign for change

She was standing on her own, mourning her foal”

Hopes and fears as fireworks night approaches *H&H Plus*

Fireworks: vets urge owners to act over fears of more unregulated displays

‘Imagine how powerful that would be’: riders urged to unite and help new fireworks petition reach parliament

The new petition, started on 21 July, received 10,000 signatures in two days. The government must now provide a response.

Public urged not to let off fireworks during weekly ‘clap for carers’

‘Everybody wants to show support for the NHS because they’re doing a fantastic job – but there are better ways of showing it’

‘Missed the point, again’: Disappointment at government’s response to fireworks inquiry *H&H Plus*

RSPCA warns of New Year’s Eve fireworks ‘misery’ for animals

The charity receives hundreds of calls each year about problems caused by fireworks

Welfare law fails to offer protection on fireworks *H&H Plus*

‘It was never supposed to be a farewell’: horse wounded during fireworks display is put down

‘The vet said they couldn’t let him suffer any more and I was asked to go and say goodbye to him’

Heartbreak as horse found dead with broken leg after fireworks

‘If someone had let us know we could have been with the horses and had staff on at night, but no one told us’

Owners’ terror as more firework incidents reported: 500,000 call for change

Details posted on social media have included a horse found dead, cases of injured and escaped horses, and fireworks displays held next door to stable yards