It contains fascinating features:
A profile of Ron Lancaster and account of his fascinating career;
Christmas crackers - a pyrotechnic history;
An account of the major firework competitions;
Lighting Up Dover with fireworks

If you use fireworks, it provides what you need to know:
Rocket re-classification;
Is it worth entering competitions?
What European regulators are coming up with;
The EC Directive which provides the new standard for fireworks in Europe

It gives you a wallow in fireworks' past:
A firework fiend growing up in Scotland in the fifties;
Another look at bangers of the past;
How we miss those Guy Fawkes past;
More on Madame Hengler;
Pictures of workers and fireworks from Brock's and Crane's;
Wilder's advert

It amuses and entertains you:
Cartoons from Sturtz, Nitro and Cyril Stafford, plus a firework cartoon from 1937;
The Guy Fawkes' display that didn't go down well in Paris

It provides you with practical information:
Aircraft and fireworks - safety measures introduced;
How you can visit an old gunpowder works - free;
What the regulators at HSE are doing

It supplies firework news from around the world:
A new series on fireworks in New Zealand;
World record rocket shoot stopped by the pen pushers;
Pyro 2000 win in Canada;
Bonfire events to be protected by international law?
Revival of the Waizai firework industry in China;
A new source of fireworks in China for importers

It provides you with colourful firework photographs:
Miniature firework dummies for dolls' houses;
Pages and pages of colour pictures of fireworks of the past;
Colour firework display photography by Paul Brocklehurst and others

It remembers major firework figures:
Sadly we have lost two of fireworks' most eminent men - Barry Hunt and Tony Farrugia. We look at their lives in fireworks

Writing in issue 55:
Ron Lancaster; Mark Fleming; John Woodhead; John Bennett; Andy Hubble; Martin Guest; Barry Sturman; Mike Thomson; Chris Pearce; Paul Rushton; Diane Thomas; Colleen Venter; Michael Glover; Anthony Lealand; Bill Davis; Mike Roberts; Victor Wu