Mark Tipping, of Preston, has been wowing crowds with his incredible house Christmas lights display for 12 years, and this year's is bigger and better than ever
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00:16 - This is our 12th year this year.
00:43 We started about 12 years ago.
00:45 We used to put a few lights on our house.
00:48 We planted a Christmas tree in the front garden,
00:50 which was like four foot high now,
00:51 and it's like 30 foot high now.
00:54 We started putting a few lights on.
00:55 People used to come and look at them.
00:57 And then one gentleman once said one day,
00:58 and he said, "It's brilliant what you do with your house."
01:00 He said, "Why don't you do it for charity?"
01:02 So we thought, next year, yeah, we will do it for charity.
01:04 So we put more effort into it and did it for charity.
01:07 So we thought, what charity should we do it for?
01:09 So we thought, well, if it's Christmas,
01:10 we'll do it for children's charity.
01:13 So we do it for Derry and House,
01:14 and that's how it started.
01:16 (fireworks exploding)
01:19 - There's paper.
01:22 - And you carry on from five.
01:34 Five!
01:37 - Four!
01:38 Three!
01:40 Two!
01:41 One!
01:42 (crowd cheering)
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02:04 - Are you trying to get this house seen from space?
02:23 Is that an ambition?
02:25 - Yeah, well, we've had, yeah,
02:27 you can see it on Google Maps.
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