One million Christmas lights man ends display over safety fears
A man who decorated his house and garden with a million Christmas lights, raising more than £55,000 for charity, has pulled the plug on it this year claiming"it got too big to handle".
However, a lack of volunteers to direct visitors and a few"near misses" on narrow roads meant he decided to call it a day.The festive illuminations covering the three-acre garden and the family's house usually take Mr Dempsey about a month to put up. Visitors over the years have made donations to Cancer Research UK, a charity chosen by Mr Dempsey, who lost both his parents to the disease."We didn't have a lot of choice - it got too big for us to handle," Mr Dempsey said.There were two nativity scenes, a giant Father Christmas and sleigh and illuminated trees
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