Lionel Blair, one of Britain's best-loved entertainers, is coming to a grand Christmas lights switch-on at a home in Stoneleigh on December 8.

A generous couple are covering their entire home with lights, mini cable car lifts and moving decorations to raise money to help fight cancer.

Harvey and Deborah Preston, from Stoneleigh, have raised more than £20,000 for the Royal Marsden Hospital by putting up increasingly extravagant lights each Christmas for seven years.

The couple, who have lost a friend to cancer, will provide crowds with wine, mince pies and small gifts to children on the night.

Friend Lisa Briggs said: "I think it's just brilliant. It's a really generous thing to do and they fund it themselves.

"You don't get many people who go out of their way to raise money out of the goodness of their hearts."

Come along to the grand opening at the house in 12 Walsingham Gardens, Stoneleigh, Surrey, from 6pm onwards.