ON Friday, Witney MP David Cameron will be joined on stage in the Market Square, Witney, for the ceremonial switching on at 6.30pm of the Christmas lights by darts legends John Lowe, Eric Bristoe, Keith Deller, and Cliff Lazarenko, who are also in town the same evening for a cancer charity fundraising event at the Langdale Hall.

They will be also taking part in the Christmas parade along the High Street to Market Square, start 6pm, astride motorcycles.

Pride of place will go to Our Lady of Lourdes RC primary schoolgirl Ellen Murphy, ten, who is this year's Witney Winter Princess.

The evening starts with music from the Dirty Earth Band, playing music live on stage from 5pm.

The master of ceremonies on the stage will be Peter Rhoades-Brown, of Oxford United.

The evening aims to be one of the best Christmas lights evenings for the town, with Santa arriving by reindeer, a Witney Rotary Club pig roast, fairground rides, carol singers, and a Christmas Fayre, including charity stalls and display by the Witney Model and Collectors Club in and just outside the Corn Exchange.

* * * Long Hanborough's Christmas lights will be switched on by singing sensation Zoë Mace on Sunday, December 2.

Anyone wishing to watch the event should arrive at Roosevelt Road just before 5pm.

Source: Witney Gazette