VILLAGES, towns and cities across the region are being urged to take part in the North-East's biggest fireworks display.
Organisers of the event, planned for Wednesday, November 3, want participants to co-ordinate their displays to form a Mexican wave of fireworks across the region.
The event has been organised by Metro Radio in response to news that there will be no official New Year's Eve fireworks celebrations this year.
One of the station's presenters will watch the spectacle from the Metro Radio plane and will be broadcasting a show on the event.
Precise details have yet to be worked out, but the first explosions will take place in Peterlee, County Durham, at 9pm, spreading north from there.
Broadcaster Alan Robson, who presents the station's Night Owls programme and will announce each area's launch orders on air, said: "We want everyone to get behind this idea.
"If every household listens in to the show and lets off at least one rocket, then the North-East will have created another major first."
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