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Families looking for a fun-filled October half-term can enjoy a packed programme of events, entertainment and attractions across the Great Yarmouth area.
From spooky shows and pumpkin picking to spectacular fireworks and a free drone light show, there is something for families of all ages to enjoy this autumn half term.
For an evening of free entertainment, BIG Tuesday’s Drone Light Show is planned over Hemsby Beach on Tuesday, when hundreds of illuminated drones will create a choreographed display in the night sky at 8pm.
The following evening, Great Yarmouth’s seafront will light up with a free massive triple firework display, beginning at 6.30pm.
If an outdoor activity is on the agenda the Hirsty’s Family Fun Park in Hemsby is the place to be for its Halloween Hoot.

Visit Great Yarmouth will deliver another free spectacular triple firework display over the town’s beach for family half term fun later this month.
Hemsby will experience its first drone light show as Visit Great Yarmouth puts on an autumn show for Beach Road.
Seafront traders poised to maximise trade in the autumn break

 
Skies over Great Yarmouth seafront will be swathed in vivid colours in a free half term triple firework display when Visit Great Yarmouth delivers another special October Big Wednesday.
Fireworks will be set off at three seafront locations on Wednesday October 28th at 6.30pm in a final pyrotechnic extravaganza for 2026.

And up the coast at Hemsby,

Visit Great Yarmouth’s six summer Big Wednesday events of firework spectaculars, dramatic drone light formations and a pyrotechnic plane are finalists in an event of the year award.
Big Wednesdays are among six events shortlisted in the Suffolk and Norfolk Tourism Awards’ Event and Festival of the Year Award 2027.
And people have the chance to make the weekly events and organiser Visit Great Yarmouth a winner  in the awards that recognise the best tourism, hospitality and visitor experiences in the region by taking part in a public vote.
Big Wednesdays delivered six free aerial spectaculars over Great Yarmouth’s famous Golden Mile this summer drawing thousands of people to the seafront each week.

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Olly Murs announced as first headliner of new Great Yarmouth summer music festival
Pop superstar Olly Murs is the first headliner announced for On The Beach Great Yarmouth as a new four-day seafront festival launches next June.
The major new music festival will take place from June 17 to 20, bringing four days of live music to the Golden Mile, with Murs taking to the stage on Friday, June 18.
Known for his energetic live performances and catalogue of hits including Dance With Me Tonight, Troublemaker, Heart Skips a Beat and Wrapped Up, Murs has released eight studio albums and has sold more than two million tour tickets.
The announcement signals a new chapter for On The Beach,

Spectacular light drone shows will entertain evening crowds at Hemsby and Great Yarmouth next week after their sensational display at Great Yarmouth this week when they replaced the weekly fireworks.
Visit Great Yarmouth’s last Big Wednesday of 2026 summer holidays will be a showcase finale featuring the aerial artistry of Lumina’s light drones – but with 400 drones, double the number in this week’s display.
The dazzling and immersive experience specially designed for the seafront venue will bring the six seafront summer events to a close, and to Hemsby’s Big Tuesdays.
Lumina, which performs drone light shows across the UK and Europe, stepped in at the last minute this week performing vivid formations and choreography in the sky over Great Yarmouth beach when the national wildfire alert stopped the usual free fireworks.

A dazzling aerial artistry show by 200 light drones will fill the skies with colour and exciting formations over Great Yarmouth seafront tomorrow night (19th Aug) to replace the weekly fireworks halted by the national wildfire alert.
The show will take place at 10pm as a last-minute replacement for the weekly fireworks.
Visit Great Yarmouth has secured been working with an international drone company to step in at the last minute to make sure this week’s spectacular Big Wednesday event goes ahead to avoid disappointing the weekly crowds that flock to the Golden Mile.
Tomorrow’s show promises an immersive experience by internationally acclaimed Lumina, which performs drone light shows across the UK and Europe.

Visit Great Yarmouth is scrambling to deliver alternative evening seafront entertainment for this week’s Big Wednesdays and has cancelled tomorrow’s Hemsby Big Tuesday while the national fire alert remains in place.
CEO Asa Morrison has stood down the Tuesday firework crew according to government advice not to use fireworks because of the wildfire alert.
“We are currently working hard to find alternatives to entertain people on Great Yarmouth seafront on Wednesday. We know people plan their holidays and weeks around our evening displays and we don’t want to disappoint.
“We hope to announce new plans tomorrow.
“Unfortunately, we couldn’t do the same for Hemsby because we don’t have sufficient time to have the correct permissions in place for alternatives there but will be looking ahead to provide different entertainment at Hemsby next week if the alert is still in place.

Up to six people will win free entry to five of Great Yarmouth’s top attractions in Visit Great Yarmouth’s Golden Ticket competition.
Worth £500, the winner and five others will win the ultimate day out in the seafront area with passes to Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, the Summer Circus at the Hippodrome, Sea Life, the Time and Tide museum and Sara’ Tearooms.
Alex Youngs, chair of Visit Great Yarmouth’s marketing group, said: “This fantastic mix of family fun, entertainment and activities for all ages and tastes reflects what Great Yarmouth is all about.
“We are proud of the experiences our great destination has to offer and love bringing our businesses together through the Golden Ticket to offer a full day out for a family or group,

A pyrotechnics plane will light up the sky over Great Yarmouth seafront with weekly airborne fireworks and aerobatics displays again this summer.
“Even bigger and better” Big Wednesdays promised by pilot who has entertained crowds from the skies at the Dubai World Cup and Lisbon Harbour.
The free fireworks – Big Wednesdays and Big Tuesdays at Hemsby – start next week.
Weekly summer fireworks displays are worth £3.3m a year to Great Yarmouth’s economy – for every £1 spent on fireworks last year £22 spent in businesses on and around the seafronts.

The night sky over Great Yarmouth seafront will light up in dramatic technicolour next week as the airplane that drew thousands of people to Great Yarmouth on Wednesdays last year returns with a “bigger and better” aerobatic and stunt display over the sea.

A popular Norfolk festival has been hailed ‘the best seafront spectacular’ of its kind by visitors.
The Great Yarmouth Wheels Festival celebrated everything with an engine over the weekend, from classic cars to custom bikes lining the whole of the Golden Mile.
Organised by Visit Great Yarmouth, around 75,000 flocked to the seafront to admire novelty vehicles, superbikes and lovingly restored classic cars, alongside the UK’s largest monster truck Big Pete and its racing rival team mate The Grim Reaper.
Each day the Best Club, Club Star and Best in Show were recognised by a panel of judges, with Saturday’s Best Club going to the Essex Petrolheads.
Founder Lee Parkinson, who grew the club from three friends to nearly 9,000 members in three years,