'We cover our home with too many Christmas lights to count - it's worth every penny'

John and Helen Attlesey decorate their location for foundation each twelvemonth (Image: SWNS)

A mates person covered their location successful Christmas lights to fundraise for charities who helped their grandson with epilepsy.

This is the 12th twelvemonth John and Helen Attlesey, from Soham, Cambridgeshire, person decorated their location with the festive lights and person raised £61k implicit the years.

Helen and John, who are some successful their 70s, said they had 'too galore lights to count' but that their neighbours don't mind.

Helen said: "People accidental I stake your location is fantastic wrong but we don't fuss decorating overmuch arsenic there's already excessively galore outside."

The mates accidental they person "too galore lights to count" (Image: SWNS)

John and Helen began fundraising aft their grandson Jacob fell sick (Image: SWNS)

Helen and John's grandson Jacob, present 21, was diagnosed with a terrible signifier of epilepsy astatine the property of six and was fixed 12 to 18 months to live.

He underwent country to region portion of his encephalon and his seizures stopped - allowing him to devour and locomotion again.

Last twelvemonth the mates raised an astonishing £7,674.09 which was divided betwixt Grand Ormond Street Hospital, Dreamflight and East Anglia's Children's Hospices.

The mates raised implicit £7,600 past twelvemonth (Image: SWNS)

Helen added: "As acold arsenic we're concerned, we're going to assistance others who could beryllium successful the aforesaid concern arsenic we recovered ourselves in.

"It costs a fewer bob to tally with the bills going up but we conscionable get connected with it.

"We vow to bash it for arsenic agelong arsenic we tin - we're 12 years successful officially but we don't person immoderate plans to stop."

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