As Bonfire Night approaches, Central Bedfordshire's Trading Standards Officers are ramping up safety checks on fireworks retailers.
Leighton Buzzard Community Policing Team has been kept busy as officers caught teenagers lobbing fireworks at lorries, and two children - one only nine years old - who had stolen eggs from a pub and were throwing them.
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