• The insiders' reports on regulation and legislation;
• World record attempts;
• Thwarting the anti firework brigade;
• Rising costs of Chinese fireworks;
• New trends in display practice;
• Inside information from all the significant British trade bodies - the BPA, the BFA, TESA, EIG - plus the HSE, and Ron Lancaster's column;
• Detailed looks at Jubilee and Walk the Plank;
• Latest format of the British Firework Championships from its organisers;
• Detail of Britain's latest firework triumph - at Montreal;
• World news - from Holland, China and elsewhere

Amusing and entertaining you:

• Wilf Scott's varied and entertaining life in fireworks;
• The man who has become known as 'the firework judge' - his year's work;
• Sturtz's fabulous cartoons - and cartoons from Wilf Scott

• Mortar rack and mortar testing;
• The new DVD releases, books and magazines;
• New firework models;
• Safety information;
• Winners of the current UK Firework Awards - what's the best?

• Brock's Illumination Lamps;
• Chasing the Lightning Chaser rockets;
• Glorious colour pictures of old Pain's, and Wizard fireworks - page after page of coloured nostalgia showing those fireworks you never thought you'd see again;
• An account of the first Guy Fawkes' Night after the War - from the granddaughter of the founder of Jessop's Fireworks;
• New Wallop fireworks discovered; Rockets on The Titanic

• Are modern Chinese fireworks really as good as the old British equivalents?

• The History of The Sparkler. Did you know...?

• A lively account of Guy Fawkes' Night in New Zealand;
• Senko Hanabi in Japan