The sound of mobile phone music accompanied exploding fireworks during a display in Worthing last night.

Pyrotechnics Gary Davis and Dave Butler spent ten months choreographing a 30-minute display set to mobile phone ringtones.

Although the annual event at Durrington Middle School, now in its 12th year, attracted its biggest crowd, Mr Davis admitted some found the music annoying.

Mr Davis, whose 11-year-old daughter, Molly, attends the Worthing school, said: "Strangely enough, people found the mobile phone tones slightly irritating. I found that a bit harsh but it was probably true.

"It's definitely a world first. Will it be emulated? We'll have to wait and see."

All profits from the display will go to the school and the Chestnut Tree House Appeal.

Meanwhile, the Steyning and Upper Beeding Bonfire Night returned to the roundabout in Bramber for the first time in ten years last night.

The show had been relocated to a number of different sites around the villages in recent years.

Event organiser Peter Shaylor said thousands attended the event and the money raised would go to three local charities.