Why switching on Christmas lights is now a big turn-off

In towns across the country, the big eventis now too much hassle to runChristmas lights are meant to inspire festive cheer – not death threats. But for the shopkeepers of Aldeburgh, organising the big switch-on has met with such a mixture of opposition and indifference that they have given up.The lights are up in the charming seaside town on the Suffolk coast, but without the fanfare of previous years. “It’s such brain damage,” said Rob Mabey, who owns the Regatta restaur