A firework spectacular cancelled on New Year's Eve because of atrocious weather will be seen across the skies as part of the Streets of Brighton Festival.

The £10,000 display was supposed to be held on Brighton seafront on New Year's Eve to celebrate the start of 2001 and the successful culmination of the Place to Be campaign.

However, the city centre celebrations proved a damp squib when the skies opened spoiling the evening's entertainment and forcing the New Year's Eve party organisers to cancel the firework display.

Now organisers of this year's Streets of Brighton event, Zap Productions, have been given permission to let off the fireworks at one of their late-night spectacular events.

The fireworks were paid for by Brighton and Hove City Council and the Millennium Commission.

Festival organisers will be letting off the fireworks at the free event in East Brighton Park, Whitehawk, on Saturday, May 12.

Audrey Ryan, of Zap Productions, said: "It should make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up with the combination of visuals and music. It should prove an uplifting event."

There will be a visual show in the park with sparkling angels and flashing fairies on stilts from production company The Wrong Size.

The visual experience will be accompanied by Brighton-based Samba band Carnival Collective. A choir with more than 100 voices will bring the celebration to a point at which the fireworks will be let off.

The Streets of Brighton Festival is a city-wide celebration of international, national and home-grown street arts during three days and nights and part of the Brighton Festival which runs from tomorrow to May 27.

The visual and musical event starts at 9pm in the park off Wilson Avenue, Whitehawk, and runs until 9.45pm.