A 16-YEAR-OLD boy has been hospitalised following an incident with a firework in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Paramedics were alerted to Rushby Mead in Letchworth GC just before 5am.

A spokesman for the East of England Ambulance Service said: “The teenager sustained burns to his hands and, following treatment by paramedics, he was taken to Lister Hospital in Stevenage for further care.”