London New Year fireworks boss says plans are ‘going smoothly’

Nerves aside, he is confident he and his team of experts have prepared for all eventualities.

He told BBC London they had a high degree of control over the display, and can remove specific fireworks from certain locations.

“Often it’s things you can’t plan that will come along and cause problems,” he said.

“Like everything, it’s experience and just having that knowledge of what can go wrong and planning for it and getting ourselves in the best position.”

Rain is expected and “is not a problem” – unlike the wind.

“The big enemy is the wind, so we have to plan for that in the design stage.

“We don’t have massive big shells that have a high chance of being taken out of a show.

“By having that in the planning stage, in the design process, then it minimises the amount of containment we have to do.

“We monitor the wind from a week out, we are looking at and monitoring the weather conditions.

“The [wind] direction is in the right direction, and if we need to curtail parts of the show, we can do that, we have all those plans in place.

“We are looking forward to delivering a full show.”