A HOST of bonfire celebrations will take place across East Lancashire this weekend.

Events include the annual Blackburn charity bonfire night and firework display at Witton Country Park tomorrow.

There will be fairground rides, a firework display and a live roadshow.

Entry costs £3 for adults and £1 for children, and family tickets, which are for two adults and up to four children under 14, will cost £8.

Accrington Stanley FC are holding a bonfire night on Sunday, from 6pm to 7.30pm, when there will be live music.

Blackburn Rovers will host a feast of football and fireworks at tomorrow's home game with QPR.

There will be a fireworks display behind the Riverside Stand at 5.15pm, with a number of offers and giveaways throughout the day.

Tickets for the day start at £21 for adults, £15 for concessions, £7 for Under-18s and £5 for Under-12s. For more details, and a run down of all the event, visit the club's website.

Burnley’s Towneley Park will hold a bonfire and public firework display on Monday. Tickets cost £3 for standard tickets and £9 for four people.

The funfair will start at 6pm and the bonfire will be lit at 6.45pm.

The Darwen mayor’s charity bonfire will take place at Darwen Cricket Club tomorrow.

The fire will be lit at 6.30pm and a firework display will take place around 7.30pm.

Darwen Cricket Club is proud to welcome back the mayor’s annual charity bonfire tomorrow.

There will be a bouncy castle and a DJ.

Clitheroe’s bonfire will be hosted on the Castle field with the fireworks display viewed from the castle keep tomorrow, from 6pm to 9pm.

Padiham Cricket Club will have a display tonight from 6pm.

There will be hot food and drink available, and admission costs £2.

All proceeds will go directly to support the future of Padiham Cricket Club and the youth cricket academy.

Bonfire night is celebrated as a result of a foiled assassination attempt on King James I by blowing up Parliament in 1605.

The plot was revealed to the authorities in an anonymous letter sent to William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle, on October 26, 1605.

During a search of the House of Lords at about midnight on November 4, 1605, plotter Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder - enough to reduce the House of Lords to rubble - and arrested.

He was later executed.