IT'S going to be "all white" on every night this Christmas after council bosses recruited the company behind Blackpool Illuminations to revamp their festive lights.

Blackburn with Darwen Council is set to ditch its multi-coloured Christmas dazzlers in a bid for a more upmarket festive look.

It has signed up a Scottish company, which helps organise Blackpool's famous illuminations, as well as festive lights in Glasgow and Manchester, in a three-year deal.

The move, which does not increase the festive lights budget, should see Blackburn and Darwen town centres flooded with white light.

Strings of coloured fairylights -- which traders say have been used for years and each year look worse than the previous Christmas -- will be replaced with white lights on netting which hang across pedestrianised streets.

Historic buildings will also be floodlit at night, in the same way many European cities light up theirs at Christmas.

The company which has secured the contract, Fife-based Blachere Illuminations, will shortly hold talks with the council to decide exactly what sort of display the authority wants.

Blachere will put up a whole new display this year, which will be paid for over three years by the council.

Tony Fitzgerald, town centre manager, said: "We have secured a three-year deal to buy new equipment which, at first, will be concentrated around the King William Street area of Blackburn, and Market Square area of Darwen.

"The lights will be smaller, and white, giving a quality continental feel which we believe is appropriate for an award-winning town centre.

"This is at no extra cost but, instead, by a more efficient use of existing budgets"

A spokesman for Blachere said light displays in Durham, Carlisle, Edinburgh, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, New York, and Nice, were all examples of its work.

Raymond Goldstone, president of Blackburn's Chamber of Trade, said: "We've been told about the new lights. Anything will be an improvement."