Southend gears up for Christmas (From Southend Standard)
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Southend gears up for Christmas
12:53pm Friday 26th October 2012 in Echo News
A WINTER wonderland is set to emerge in Southend in the run-up to Christmas.
The fun begins with a Christmas Spectacular on Saturday November 17 when the lights will be switched on.
Families can enjoy a series of events on the High Street from 8.30am until 5.30pm including a parade involving Santa and his real live reindeer. The parade will start at Victoria Circus at 1pm.
There will also be roaming performers, a fires show, and then fireworks will be set off at 5.30pm.
A Christmas Farmers and Craft Market will also be in the High Street Saturday from November 17 to December 22 as well as Sunday 23rd and Monday 24th December .
On December 1, a festive fun day will be held from 11am until 4pm with street performers, Christmas workshops and face painting for children, a Santa cycle ride, and he Arriva ‘Story Bus’.
Comments(8)
emcee
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1:47pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Eric Whim
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3:50pm Fri 26 Oct 12
PJR-121 wrote:the quality of 'journlisam' in many of today's stories is very low in my opinion.
Who wrote this! Terrible! Sack the Sub!
It's almost as if they've got a twelve year old in to do the job while everyone else is down the pub!
DogsMessInLeigh
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4:44pm Fri 26 Oct 12
sosad 1
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5:29pm Fri 26 Oct 12
Eric Whim
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7:43pm Fri 26 Oct 12
DogsMessInLeigh wrote:bring back the days of the lights on the cliffs
That don't sound like a 'Winter wonderland' to me, now if they did make the effort and do a real winter wonderland it would be worth shouting about.
Nebs
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9:03pm Fri 26 Oct 12
reptile
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4:54pm Sun 28 Oct 12
PJR-121 says...
12:58pm Fri 26 Oct 12