We’ve been covering our house in Christmas lights for 12 years to raise money for charity and don’t plan to stop

A COUPLE wholly screen their location successful Christmas lights — successful a bid to rise wealth for charity.

It is the 12th twelvemonth moving that John and Helen Attlesey person enactment connected the extravagant show.

They couple, some successful their 70s, accidental they person “too galore lights to count”, but their neighbours bash not caput the agleam decorations.

They person raised £61,000 implicit the years — and past twelvemonth divided £7,674 betwixt Great Ormond Street Hospital, Dreamflight, and East Anglia Children’s Services.

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.”

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.

Helen, of Soham, Cambs, said: “We’re going to assistance others who could beryllium successful the aforesaid concern we recovered ourselves in.

“It costs a fewer bob with the bills going up, but we 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.”