Firework legislation has been branded a “toothless tiger” by a councillor as West Lothian readies for Bonfire night.

It comes after a second raid in a month in the county recovered 200kg of fireworks in East Calder, weeks after a seizure in Addiewell.

Conservative Alison Adamson pointed to widespread on-line sales, and another member of the Public and Community Safety PDSP raised questions about the widely advertised sales of fireworks.

For a second year no firework control zones have been set up in West Lothian for the week around Bonfire Night. Julie Whitelaw, lead officer for the committee told councillors that no communities had asked for them to be set up.

Councillor Alison Adamson told the meeting the firework legislation was not addressing criminal behaviour around fireworks:

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