内容摘要：Concerns include distress fireworks cause to pets, wildlife, and people with conditions like PTSD, as well as their environmental impact.

Concerns include distress fireworks cause to pets, wildlife, and people with conditions like PTSD, as well as their environmental impact.

A spokesman for Astro Property said planning decisions are not determined by public referendum but by material decisions.The building has four floors, including a basement. The top two floors are residential with the application seeking to change the use of the ground and basement floors.

The applicants said the site would employ up to eight people.A Kent partnership which aims to tackle vapes being sold illegally and to people who are underage is being extended to a second town in the county.was launched in Tunbridge Wells in September and brought together Kent County Council, Kent Police and the Independent British Vape Trade Association.

Ashford is now set to benefit from its own project, which will have an initial focus on targeting illegal underage sales.A spokesperson said the pilot had generated "important momentum and positive change in raising retail compliance".

LVA is a local partnership approach delivering targeted action and engagement to address specific vape-related issues.

A spokesperson said: "More engagement is needed to ensure retailers have no excuse in not meeting their statutory requirements when it comes to selling age-restricted products such as vapes."The military said it struck Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters in the north on Tuesday night. It had warned residents of Jabalia and neighbouring areas to evacuate on Tuesday after rockets were launched into Israel.

Israeli evacuation orders issued on Wednesday afternoon also caused panic among residents of a crowded area of Gaza City, in the north.The Israeli military said a hospital, a university and several schools sheltering displaced people in the Rimal neighbourhood had become "terrorist strongholds" and that it would soon attack them with "intense force".

Separately, a US-backed organisation said it would start work in Gaza within two weeks as part of a new and heavily criticised US-Israeli aid distribution plan.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation said it had asked Israel to let the UN and others resume deliveries until it was set up, and also to allow it to set up aid distribution sites in the north as well as the south.