Police warn parents as fireworks injuries mount

LONDON (AP): BRITAIN’S OUTGOING infrastructure chief is vowing to fight Prime Minister Theresa May on Brexit policy.

Andrew Adonis said yesterday he will campaign next year to keep Britain inside the European Union (EU) because following May’s Brexit plans may lead to economic calamity.

“Very few of the people who voted for Brexit voted, I believe, to make themselves poorer,” he told BBC radio.

Adonis resigned last Friday as chairman of the National Infrastructure Commission to protest May’s Brexit policy.

The Labour Party peer is urging other senior figures to speak out against Brexit, which he said would rip Britain out of its key trading alliances.

Britain voted in a 2016 referendum to leave the EU, but negotiations towards a new trading agreement with EU nations have been slowed by disputes. BERLIN (AP): POLICE IN Germany are appealing to parents not to let children light fireworks as reports of explosives injuries mounted yesterday in the run up to New Year’s celebrations.

Dortmund police say a sevenyear-old boy was hospitalised with serious injuries to his hand and face Friday after a firecracker exploded in his hand.

The Berliner Morgenpost daily reported yesterday that a 13-yearold boy lost an eye in the capital due to a firecracker explosion.

Although most fireworks are only permitted to be used by people aged 18 or over, dozens of children suffer serious injuries every New Year in Germany from mishandled fireworks.