A 4,000-name petition demanding tighter controls on fireworks has been presented to the House of Commons by a local MP.

Aireborough and Horsforth MP Paul Truswell launched the petition in Guiseley with Graham Hoult, from the Wharfe Valley Cats Protection.

It calls on the House of Commons to create legislation limiting the noise levels of fireworks available to the public, controls the time of year when they can be bought and used, restricts the times when they can be set off and requires public displays to be controlled by licensed technicians.

Mr Truswell is supporting the Fireworks Bill, a Private Member's Bill put forward by Labour MP Bill Tynan.

"The Bill provides a broad framework for tackling the sale, purchase, use, import and quality of fireworks, and it needs to be backed with tight regulations once it is passed," Mr Truswell told the Wharfedale Observer.

"Of all the aspects of firework nuisance that need to be addressed, what really gets the goat of my constituents is the repeated use of noisy fireworks way before and beyond Bonfire Night.

"Even with legislation, enforcement is an issue and a problem. It is not always easy to identify or apprehend abusers of fireworks.

"Limiting the noise levels, however, of fireworks available to the general public would go some way towards tackling the main source of the problem."

At the Third Reading of the Fireworks Bill, Conservative members Edward Leigh and Christopher Chope pushed for a commitment to a noise level of 120 decibels - the level demanded by the firework manufacturers - in order to allow progress on the Bill.

"The big noises of the firework industry have scored a massive victory over the little person in this debate," said Mr Truswell.

"Conservative members effectively held the Bill's mover and the Minister to ransom by demanding a 120 dB limit in order to let it through this stage.

"That level is the equivalent of a jet aircraft at a distance of 100 metres.

"I believe my constituents - 4,000 of whom signed the petition I presented to Parliament - would have wanted a level considerably less raucous than 120 dB."

Mr Truswell said that he has supported something closer to the RSPCA's proposal of 95 decibels for fireworks available for general sale.