A town council has apologised for a long delay in starting its big free firework display which left punters waiting for hours with bored children.
on Saturday has come in for a welter of criticism with one attended saying that the organisers “should be ashamed of themselves” after a start time of 7pm came and went.
"This crowd had gathered long before the 7pm start so why did it take so long for officials to realise people were questing in the ‘unsafe zone’? "We’d had enough having two young kids wait for two hours only to become exhausted and upset at the ridiculous wait… we had travelled 45 minutes for this and in the end didn’t see any fireworks.
Another wrote: “With a two and three year old in tow it was ridiculous, let everyone in and then kept changing where they want you to stand.A spokesperson for“We apologise for the delay in firing which was for safety reasons. We are aware that there were a number of issues, we will undertake a review to address these.Oswestry councillor Mike Isherwood said he had seen a lot of “unfair things” being said.
“Some people seem to think that Oswestry Town Council has gone out of its way to ruin this much-loved annual event, but this is of course untrue.
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