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In Pictures: Marmots and maze lit up for Christmas cheer

Christmas decorations are bringing some much-needed light to the dark winter nights.
Christmas decorations are bringing some much-needed light to the dark winter nights. Christmas decorations are bringing some much-needed light to the dark winter nights.

With the dark nights drawing in, people are getting even more creative with their Christmas decorations.

While one Hampshire town has set up 16ft illuminated animals, a Scottish maze made of Christmas trees has lit the way with fairy lights and a West Yorkshire family home has been transformed with a candy cane theme.

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Christmas Lights People look at a 16ft illuminated marmot called Meribel which has been erected outside the Assembly Rooms in Alton, Hampshire (Andrew Matthews/PA)
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Christmas Lights Meribel has a friend called Marmite, and both are dressed in a ski theme (Andrew Matthews/PA)

A maze made of Christmas trees has been set up at the Blair Drummond Smiddy Farm Shop near Stirling, ahead of the opening of their Christmas festivities this weekend.

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Christmas 2020 Jasmine Muir, 10, and her sister Lottie, 8, explore the maze (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Christmas 2020 The trees have been decorated with a trail of Christmas lights (Andrew Milligan/PA)

Meanwhile, in West Yorkshire, one family from Garforth have turned their home into a candy-themed wonderland.

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Christmas lights Rod and May Proctor decorated their home which has proved a hit with children in the neighbourhood (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Candy themed Christmas decorations The home has been attracting visitors keen to photograph their cheery display (Danny Lawson/PA)
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Candy themed Christmas decorations Children have been queueing for pictures (Danny Lawson/PA)