If there's a rocket tie me to it

Sat 28th Nov 09, 10.21pm
Well done to all our display teams tonight, Paul at Coalville Christmas Lights, Dick at Knebworth, Lewis at Manford Way and especially Steve, Dave & Craig at cold and windswept Dove Stones Reservoir. This last display had a particular poignancy being the dying wish of a young soldier who was killed in Afghanistan earlier this year. Joey Etchells, from Oldham, was only 20 when he lost his life to a roadside bomb. He told his mum and dad that if anything happened to him, he wanted to remembered with a fireworks display in the desolate beauty of one of his favourite haunts. It was a bitterly cold and blustery night when dozens of Joey's friends and family gathered for a fond farewell as his ashes were scattered in a thousand stars. The display was fired to his favourite tunes including I Believe I Can Fly, Spirit in the Sky, Eye of the Tiger and Bullet in the Gun. Aftewards his mum came up and said 'You did him proud.' Our thanks to Fergus Jamieson of Heavens Above Fireworks for asking us to provide the memorial to this brave soldier.