http://www.juicebrighton.com/news/brighton-news/mystery-over-loud-bang-in-brighton/
Hard to fathom how something could be that loud and nobody knows what it was. Certainly wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere in the immediate vicinity of whatever it was.
Was quarter past midnight. Remember looking at my watch. Helluva bang, totally unlike a normal firework or car backfiring. Sounded like some kind of metal canister exploding. Loud enough to set all the seagulls in the area squawking. Fully expected to hear police sirens shortly after, but never...