A FAMILY who have spent weeks making a spectacular Christmas lights display outside their Minehead home, are expecting hundreds of spectators when it goes live on Saturday (November 29) and runs until January 4.

The Grace family’s popular festive wonderland in Plover Close, off Seaward Way, has enthralled neighbours and passers-by for the past 11 Christmases and raised more than £10,000 for the Dorset ad Somerset Air Ambulance.

Michael Grace said: “People seem to love what we do at Christmas and we get big crowds coming to our displays, which take weeks to prepare.

“Every Christmas we try to improve on the previous year.

“I get lots of help from my wife Beverley and four children and fit it all in at the same time as running my gardening and handyman business.

“This year, we are staging our biggest display ever, with thousands of LED lights, which only cost about 60p an hour to run.

“Last year, we raised over £300 just on the day of the switch-on.”

The festive attraction, being opened by Father Christmas, will also involve a raffle, falling snow, reindeer, and Christmas music.

The display runs from 5 pm to 8 pm on Sundays to Thursdays, and from 4.30 pm to 8.30 pm on Fridays and Saturdays.

The Grace family first raised money for the charity with their Christmas extravaganzas in 2014 while they were living in Alcombe.

Since moving to Plover Close, the displays have become a part the town’s Christmas celebrations with hundreds visiting annually.

The family are supported by neighbours who also decorate their homes with spectacular Christmas lights.

One said: “It is a real community event and we all help to make it a really special time.”

The switch-on is at 6 pm and visitors are asked to park on larger roads to avoid congestion in Plover Close.