Who will take the threat to horses from fireworks seriously?

Remember remember the 5th of November, when Britain’s most controversial pub chain stages a massive firework display in the middle of fields full of horses. I get the feeling that if my local were any other pub owned by any other chain, the fact that dozens of horse owners have been ringing up to plead with them not to go ahead would result in us being listened to.

But Greene King is not just any pub chain. Google it and you will find that the comments on both TripAdvisor and employment websites like Glassdoor — in which former workers swap stories — are quite extraordinary.

What should we expect, therefore, when every year one of their ‘gastropubs’ stages a truly stupendous bonfire night, with a giant bonfire and a 15-minute professional fireworks display, right next to livestock?

Just across the hedgerow, a few feet away from where they light the fireworks, are fields full of horses.