Paisley’s Christmas Lights will be switched on Thursday 26th November during an evening of traditional festive fun for children.The event – rescheduled following Saturday’s sudden postponement – will take place in Abbey Close and Paisley Town Hall and will start at 5pm, with the lights going on at 7pm.
Santa will be there along with his reindeer while there will also be music hosted by Pulse FM and carols from RockUs Community Choir. There will also be outdoor food stalls, mulled wine and mince pies, and children’s entertainment.
Renfrewshire Council Leader Mark Macmillan said: “We received widespread support from the local community for our decision to postpone at the weekend. In this very short space of time, an event on the scale of the original celebrations was obviously not possible. But we knew Paisley would want its switch-on to be fun and to be for the youngsters – that is what we have produced.”
A separate public event will be held sometime in the new year to publicly launch the Paisley 2021 bid for UK City of Culture.