The Christmas Lights in Market Drayton are now glowing after a well attended switch on event.
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00:00So it's over to you, Hossberth, for the countdown.
00:04You can join in this one.
00:06Do you want to start?
00:08Yeah.
00:09Right.
00:10Do you want to start the countdown?
00:12Do you want to start the countdown, Mike?
00:13Five.
00:14Yeah.
00:15Okay, we'll start from five.
00:16Starting from five.
00:18Five.
00:19Four.
00:20Three.
00:21Two.
00:22One.
00:24Yeah.
00:38Mr. Tan Croyer, what's your name, sir?
00:40Geoffrey Russell.
00:41And a fantastic introduction for our lovely Mayor, Roy Alcroft.
00:46Hello, sir.
00:48You enjoy doing that?
00:49Yeah, it was great fun.
00:51And to look out onto the square there and see all the people.
00:54Fantastic.
00:55And it's lovely and dry because it was raining earlier, wasn't it?
00:58Yeah, yeah.
00:59And the magic countdown was done by none other than...
01:02Ellsworth Talbot.
01:03So, Ellsworth, we met you the other day.
01:05You won the overall picture on the calendar competition, didn't you?
01:08Yeah.
01:09Have you ever taken part in turning on Christmas lights in a town before?
01:12No, never tried.
01:14It's good fun, though, isn't it?
01:15Yeah, it is.
01:16And, of course, the gingerbread man.
01:18The gingerbread man.
01:19Mark it right and after all, Cole.
01:21Well, go on, give us a ring of that bell again, sir.
01:23There we go.
01:24Yeah.
01:25Oh, yeah.
01:27Oh, Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis.
01:40Oh, Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis.
01:55Peace from heaven above.
01:58His people wealthly sponsored.
02:02Oh, Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis.
02:08Oh, Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis.
02:20Oh, Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis.
02:30Oh, Gloria, Hosanna in excelsis.