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Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney will finally get fired – as the celebrity villain at this year's most controversial bonfire night.It's true that the player has a face only a mother could love so to stay true to his appearance the 49ft (15 meters) statue of Rooney has been given green ogre-style Shrek ears. Dressed in full kit, the giant Rooney clutches a copy of his new five-year contract and a holdall full of cash. The actual effigy has been stuffed with fireworks and will go up in flames on Saturday at Edenbridge Bonfire Society's annual parade in Kent.It’s been an tumultuous year for the star striker and his antics have made him the obvious choice for this year’s bonfire baddie. In September he hit the headlines over allegations that he slept with two prostitutes whilst his wife Colleen was pregnant with their first child. Then his loyalty to his club came into question as he suggested he was going to leave before signing a new lucrative deal with the club - taking home £200,000-a-week, making him Britain's highest paid footballer. Rooney will now join previous baddies Katie Price, Saddam Hussein, Gordon Brown and Tony Blair, in the Edenbridge Bonfire Society’s hall of infamy in Kent.Organiser Charles Laver said: “This year Rooney was the runaway choice.“We did think of him when he was allegedly sleeping with prostitutes but that all died down. Then he stepped up to the mark with all his wage demand shenanigans.”"I hate football myself so I'm quite happy to burn a footballer," he added.Dressed in full kit, the giant Rooney clutches a copy of his new five-year contract and a holdall full of cash. Last year an effigy of Katie Price, aka Jordan, was burnt.
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Fire service in London are planning a 47hour strike, which will fall on the national holiday Bonfire Night. The Fire Minister has called the strike "reckless", since Bonfire Night contains fires and fireworks celebrations by the public.
The Fire Service Union said 79% of its work force approve dthe strike becuase the service in London is facing a mass of jobs loses after a dispute over shift hours and community safety work.
"WHAT HAS LED TO THE STRIKE?
* The dispute centres on plans to shorten firefighters' night shifts and increase day shifts
* Firefighters currently work 15-hour night shifts and 9-hour day shifts
* The London Fire Brigade is proposing 13-hour night shifts and 11-hour day shifts
* The brigade says this will give more time for training and community safety work
* The FBU is angry that firefighters must sign new contracts or face the sack
* It is striking as the brigade has begun a formal process to terminate 5,600 firefighters' contracts"-BBC
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Mary Fox, 59, died in the blaze at her house in Wallace Road, Bodmin, Cornwall.
She reportedly saved her son Raum, 17, by pushing him through an upstairs window.
An 18-year-old man and two 17-year-old boys are being held in custody, according to Devon and Cornwall police.
Officers began a murder investigation after parts of a firework were found behind the front door of the house.
Further proof that fireworks to the general public should be banned.
Doesn't matter about age limits, we know they never work, as kids will always manage to get their hands on fireworks, cigarettes and alcohol.
If people want to see fireworks then they can go watch the shows they put on in the parks.
People don't even realise what bonfire night is all about anyway, yet they spend money like mad on it. the reason for fireworks and fires on this specific day is to celebrate the King's life being saved and the death of guy fawks, I'd rather celebrate guy fawks life being saved and the death of the king, but everyone else by setting off fireworks or playing penny for the guy, is celebrating the fact that a man who tried to fight government in the bravest way possible was tortured and murdered for trying to fight back and we are celebrating the fact that we still have an inbreeding leeching Royal family.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091109/tuk-three-teens-held-over-fatal-firework-45dbed5.htmlMary Fox, 59, died in the blaze at her house in Wallace Road, Bodmin, Cornwall.
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A bonfire society in Kent are going to burn a model of Katie Price as their guy for Bonfire night on Saturday. They decided to pick Jordan rather than Nick Griffin as they thought he'd be too political.
A spokesperson said "I hope she takes it in good faith. We are only doing this for the fun of it. We are not doing it because we don't like the lady or anything like that."
Be interesting to see what they did with people they didn't like!
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Here's a video of the largest firework to have ever been launched! It's pretty impressive, although i would have liked to have seen a common or garden firework launched just before, ya know, to put it into perspective! But either way, it'd make me drop me' toffee apple...Here's a video of the largest firework to have ever been launched! It's... more
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The English, among other talents, are adept at nurturing their grudges. How else does one explain the enduring enmity toward Guy Fawkes, a conspirator in a plot to blow up Parliament in 1605? Some four centuries after Fawkes was caught, tortured and executed for his role in a scheme that never came to fruition, Britons still celebrate his demise each Nov. 5 by burning his likeness in effigy and setting fireworks ablaze.
One of the ironies of Fawkes' legacy is that he was a late addition to the infamous "Gunpowder Plot." Born a Protestant in 1570, Fawkes enlisted in the Spanish army in the Netherlands around 1593, shortly after converting to Catholicism. Co-conspirators Robert Catesby, Thomas Winter, Thomas Percy and John Wright enlisted Fawkes as a ringer, reasoning that his military skills — he had participated in the 1595 capture of Calais, France — and his anonymity as a foreign soldier made him an ideal candidate to help execute their plan.
Fawkes' henchmen were zealous Catholics who believed that by beheading the government, they might usher in a new era of Catholicism in Protestant England. Led by Catesby, they hatched a plan to explode gunpowder under Parliament during a state opening, when King James I, his queen, and other family members and government leaders were inside. The plot was set for Nov. 5, 1605, and in the preceding days, the conspirators rented a cellar underneath the building, where Fawkes stashed at least 20 barrels of gunpowder.
Things didn't go according to plan. The plotters sought wider support, and, as the story goes, one of the individuals to whom they reached out alerted his brother-in-law, a lord, not to attend Parliament on Nov. 5. The building was searched, and Fawkes was apprehended along with his stockpile of gunpowder. Tortured on the rack, he revealed the names of his co-conspirators. Some of them were killed while resisting arrest; others, including Fawkes, pled not guilty and went to trial, where they were convicted of high treason. In January, 1606, the remaining conspirators were hanged, drawn and quartered. Parliament immediately established Nov. 5 as a day of celebration.
Today, Guy Fawkes Day — also known as Bonfire Night — is marked across the United Kingdom by celebrations. To foot the bill for the traditional fireworks, children roam the streets in the days leading up to the event, brandishing their effigies — known as "Guys" — and ask passers-by for a "penny for the guy." Families gather for food and festivities that might seem incongruous with the event's bloody origins — although perhaps not as incongruous as lighting fireworks and bonfires to celebrate an abortive attempt at arson.
In recent years, Fawkes' legacy has broadened. He provided the inspiration for the tile character in the Wachowski brothers' V for Vendetta, in which a masked crusader embarks on a terrorist campaign against a totalitarian British dystopia. Fawkes also proved an effective fundraising rally cry for onetime U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul, who garnered more than $4 million on the holiday in 2007 from a website commemorating Fawkes. This year, revelers will gather across Britain — most notably in Lewes, a town once known as a hotbed of anti-Catholicism sentiment that throws one of the British Isles' biggest conflagrations — and in nations ranging from South Africa and Canada to New Zealand and Australia. Guards will also perform the annual search —more pageantry than precaution—of the Houses of Parliament to ensure no would-be Fawkes is lurking. Though the animosity and rituals may merely be symbolic at this point, the celebrations still burn brightly.
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