WINSFORD’s Christmas Street Festival promises to be ‘bigger and better than ever’ when it gets underway later this month.

The annual festival kicks off on Friday, November 28, starting with a lantern parade featuring Winsford primary school children.

The Christmas lights will be switched on by Town Mayor Cllr Gina Lewis at 5pm, and this year the lights are being extended to cover more than a mile of spectacular illuminations.

Town Clerk Alan Warburton said: “This year’s festival promises to be bigger and better than ever, with something for all the family, and the extended Christmas lights promise to be truly spectacular.

“The Old High Street is a great venue for the street festival and will give hundreds of people the chance to see the wide range of specialist shops and businesses that operate there.”

There will  be live music by local artists as well as a Christmas market, funfair, street entertainers, puppet shows and carol singers.

Families will also be able to enjoy a free tractor and trailer rides through the Christmas lights, taking festival goers along the full length of the illuminations.

Father Christmas will also be making an early appearance in the St Luke’s Hospice double decker bus.

The festival will end with a bang – literally – at 7pm with a spectacular firework display.

Proceedings begin from 4pm.