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On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood.

To disappoint them, therefore, the travellers stripped the caches of the articles deposited there, and collecting together everything that they could not carry away with them, made a bonfire of all that would burn, and threw the rest into the river.

Take it, mistress housekeeper; open the window and fling it into the yard and lay the foundation of the pile for the bonfire we are to make."

Two axes lay upon the sands beside me; chips and splinters were scattered broadcast, and the ashes of the bonfire were blackening and smoking under the dawn.

This much-enduring man had succeeded in banishing chewing gum after a long and stormy war, had made a bonfire of the confiscated novels and newspapers, had suppressed a private post office, had forbidden distortions of the face, nicknames, and caricatures, and done all that one man could do to keep half a hundred rebellious girls in order.

In the centre of the smoothly swept back yard was a great bonfire. Armand Aubigny sat in the wide hallway that commanded a view of the spectacle; and it was he who dealt out to a half dozen negroes the material which kept this fire ablaze.

Night bonfires to have been year in Belfast CAssistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton confirmed an allegation of aggravated trespassing made by Belfast City Council is "now being investigated".

Make your bonfire night go with a bang (and maybe a whizz and a whirl too) with one of the great displays and bonfires going on in North Wales this year.

Among the junk left on bonfires in Thornton and Litherland are old mattresses, seemingly new PVC doors, dining room chairs and even a kids scooter.

ORGANISERS of the borough's civic bonfires are hoping to hit another sparkling milestone and smash last year's record attendances.