The Queen's Platinum Jubilee is going to be celebrated in Whitby tonight with a pop-up fireworks display.
The free event is reusing a display planned for last November but delayed by Storm Arwen.
The high impact, low noise display will be launched from the east pier at 7pm tonight.
The display will mark the 70th Anniversary of the Queen's accession to the throne. The special low-noise display, which was originally planned for the town's lights switch-on event in November, has been repurposed into linear display of low-level fireworks along the East Pier.
It had been hoped the display would take place on February 18th, that was then moved to the 24th due to last week's storms, now the event will take place next Tuesday.
Announcing this pop-up event, Town Mayor, Cllr Linda Wild said,
"The whole town was disappointed when storm Arwen put paid to our plans in November. We had worked with Reaction Fireworks to develop a high-impact, low-noise display, which we would have launched from the East Cliff.
"We believe in waste-not, want-not and now we want to use these fireworks to launch Whitby's celebration of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee with a free spectacle that everyone can enjoy".
"This will be a 'must see' event for anyone in Whitby next week and a fabulous opportunity for photographers to capture the display.
"We couldn't do this without the fantastic support of the harbourmaster. My thanks go to Captain Burrows and his magnificent team at Whitby Harbour for enabling this to happen. My thanks also go to Scott Hillary at Reaction Fireworks who has come up with this clever reuse of the fireworks that storm Arwen scuppered!"
Whitby Town Council has worked in partnership with Scarborough Borough Council, which provided funding originally allocated to the Christmas Festival, to launch a pyrotechnic display in the shadow of the cliffs below Whitby Abbey at 7pm on Tuesday 1 March


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