FIVE thousand people joined a town’s Christmas lights countdown but there were no 
lights to switch on. They were taken down for safety reasons a week previously after one string of bulbs fell into the street but the organisers had the bright idea of going ahead with the switch-on anyway. The event in Colchester, Essex, had been billed as the “biggest-ever parade and town light switch-on”. It included children marching through the streets with Father Christmas, the chance to meet Colchester United players and youngsters decorating a tree. But as the countdown reached zero, the only lights that flickered into action were in shop windows and on a Christmas tree. Chris Rawlinson, of the Colchester Town Partnership, said: “Two of the cross-street features fell but nobody was injured. We took them all down for safety reasons.” Daily Mirror 6/11/06.
lights to switch on. They were taken down for safety reasons a week previously after one string of bulbs fell into the street but the organisers had the bright idea of going ahead with the switch-on anyway. The event in Colchester, Essex, had been billed as the “biggest-ever parade and town light switch-on”. It included children marching through the streets with Father Christmas, the chance to meet Colchester United players and youngsters decorating a tree. But as the countdown reached zero, the only lights that flickered into action were in shop windows and on a Christmas tree. Chris Rawlinson, of the Colchester Town Partnership, said: “Two of the cross-street features fell but nobody was injured. We took them all down for safety reasons.” Daily Mirror 6/11/06.
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