As Christmas draws near towns across Merseyside have decked their high street with festive lights.
However, in Birkenhead shoppers have remarked on how "sad" and "depressing" the Pyramid Shopping Centre has been during the Christmas period. Photos taken by the ECHO show the town's shopping centre has very few decorations up with one person commenting "a few lights would help to lift people's spirits."
In a post to a local community group on Facebook, residents of the town shared their thoughts on the "sad decline" of the centre's Christmas lights which used to be "fabulous". The shopping centre, which is run by Pyramids, has set up a Christmas grotto which they say more than 600 children have visited this year alone.
