UK debates banning flares and fireworks at music events

Music parliamentary group chair Nigel Adams MP will propose the measure, which he says "has support across the board", in the House of Commons today

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The British parliament is to debate whether to ban the carrying or use of flares, fireworks and smoke bombs by audience members at concerts and music festivals.

Nigel Adams, the member of parliament for Selby and Ainsty in Yorkshire and chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Music, which provides a discussion forum between the UK music industry and parliamentarians, will argue the case today with a 10-minute rule motion in the House of Commons.

“I am very pleased to…

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