The lights are being switched on in Blackpool today, a tradition going back 100 years and which now costs £2m.
Councillor Simon Blackburn describes it as "one of the best free shows on earth." But Phil Oakley, former director of the Blackpool Festival of Light, describes the illuminations as a "dinosaur" and thinks the tradition needs to modernise and "understand the market".
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