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Sheffield prepares to get spooky

25 October 2007

Sheffield is preparing for some spooky goings on this scary season.
 
The Yorkshire city is asking Halloween revellers to dust off their cloaks and ‘slap on some fake blood’ for Friday Night, the biggest party of its kind in the UK.
 
Now in its seventh year, Friday Night will take place on 28 October, from 15.30 to 20.30, and event organisers are promising it will be ‘battier than ever’.
 
Sheffield City Council said: ‘This year’s Friday Night promises to be bigger than ever before, with even more chills and thrills, plus a number of spooky surprises’.
 
Last year 31 000 visitors from across the country turned up at the event to celebrate things that go bump in the night, many of which were kitted out in full fancy dress.
 
This year's festivities will take place all across the city and will feature a spooky street theatre, a ‘fiendish’ fair, haunted taxi ranks, fire walking and a mass Time Warp attempt.

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