Christmas lovers to ditch festive lights to help save the planet. Their call came after couple Helen and John Attlesey put up their famous epic house display early to raise money for charity.Andrew Griffith, chairman of the Dark Skies all-party parliamentary group, said: “While we all need some festive cheer, much exterior lighting is unnecessarily bright.“A good compromise would be for homeowners to use timers so that they do not stay blazing all night.”A Green Party spokesman said: “We’ve got to weigh up the effect on our planet against having lots of lights above our doors.”And Tory MP for Ludlow, Shrops, Philip Dunne, encouraged people to use LED lighting which uses 10% less power than normal lights.The killjoys have been likened to air.
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