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Manchester Evening News
Manchester Evening News
National
James Holt

Heartbreaking reason behind spectacular Christmas lights display at Tameside bungalow

A widow whose hero husband made children smile in hospital on Christmas Day has vowed to keep lighting up her home in his memory.

Bernadine Horrocks, 66, has been attracting excited families to her Dukinfield bungalow for years as her and devoted husband Stephen put up dazzling festive displays in the run up to the big day.

Stephen passed away just five days before Christmas last year from heart failure, aged 66. Bernadine later uncovered letters from Tameside Hospital, thanking him for making the poorly children and nurses smile every Christmas morning.

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