Christmas Lights Switch On event cancelled

Hinckley Town Centre will not have a Christmas lights switch on event in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Borough Council has announced a number of major changes to its events programme.

The Christmas lights switch on event and Tin Hat Fair will not be held "in its usual format", although the council say Christmas lights will still be installed and switched on in Hinckley but there will be no large scale public event, fair or fireworks. 

Thousands of people pack out the town centre and stand in front of the Fosse 107 stage in the market place to start the festivities in Hinckley. 

Simon Jones, Cultural Services Manager at the Borough Council said: "We are determined to celebrate Christmas in the town in a way that will support our local economy, so we will be looking to arrange some smaller events and other activities such as Christmas street entertainment to celebrate Christmas and enable visitors to enjoy festive shopping safely in a Covid-secure way this year.”

The Remembrance Sunday service which is usually attended by several thousand people in the Garden of Remembrance will this year be a smaller, virtual service to be broadcast on social media to enable members of the public to be able to properly and safely honour those who gave their lives to protect our country from the safety of their own home.  A parade will not take place this year.