Calne Winter Festival cancelled (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)
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Forecast heavy rain leads town council to scrap popular Christmas event
10:56am Friday 23rd November 2012 in Calne By Anne Moore
Santa with PCSOs Nichol Yates and Shelly Gray at last year's Calne Winter Festival. This year's event has been cancelled.
Calne's Winter Festival - due to take place in the town tomorrow from 2pm - has been cancelled because of the bad weather.
Heavy rain has been forecast for Saturday and a spokesman for the town council said they were very disappointed at having to cancel the popular Christmas event, as a lot of planning had gone into it.
But it was decided that it was better to let people know today rather than make a decision tomorrow.
It is expected that a small Christmas lights switch-on ceremony will take place at some point but the main event will not take place this year.
