Edinburgh Zoo staff have slammed the widespread use of fireworks in the city after Guy Fawkes Night explosions literally scared their baby red panda to death. A public petition calling for tighter restrictions on the use of fireworks and signed by more than a million people was delivered to the UK Government last week.

Zookeepers have blamed fireworks on the annual Bonfire Night celebrations for the death of a baby red panda named Roxie

Animal campaigners are calling for a ban on the public sale of fireworks after a baby red panda was thought to have died from stress related to the noise.

A three-month-old red panda has died at Edinburgh Zoo after choking on her own vomit due to stress caused by fireworks on Bonfire Night. Veterinary experts at the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS) believe the death of baby Roxie was linked to pyrotechnics being set off across the city centre on November 5.