An estimated 40,000 people attended the annual bonfire event in Lewes to mark Guy Fawkes Night. The different bonfire societies marched with huge effigies and holding burning torches along the East Sussex town's crowded streets on Tuesday.

An estimated 40,000 revellers celebrated at a famous Bonfire Night event which saw three people taken to hospital and four arrests made, police said. Sussex Police said Lewes Bonfire Night was busier than last year’s event and officers thanked people for making it a “successful night”.

Crowds of people lined the streets of Lewes as the town’s bonfire societies marched with burning torches for Guy Fawkes Night. Tens of thousands of people were expected to turn out for the annual celebrations, a tradition still very much alive since the first recorded event in 1795.