Nightmare on Leicester Street

Walsall residents are warned keep one eye open as the Nightmare on Leicester Street begins. Walsall Teaching Primary Care Trust (Walsall tPCT) and Walsall Council are joining forces to create a spooktastic day of horror and health this Friday 27 October between 10am and 3pm.

Rachael Humphreys, Head of Health Promotion, said: “Walsall adults and children are guaranteed a day of fun during their half term at Wicked Health Day. Walsall tPCT are promoting health awareness around eating more fruit and vegetables and the benefits of physical activity. There will also be information on how to quit smoking and on safe levels of drinking in the lead up to the Christmas party season.”

There are three venues around the town all hosting an array of horrific trick or treats as well as street performers lining the streets giving out Wicked Health Day maps and character trading cards.

There will be Nightmare on Leicester Street where children can get their faces re-arranged into good or evil with the help of some not so friendly face painters. While the kids are busy being re-arranged adults will need to watch out as staff will be on the hunt to take their blood pressure and body mass index. There will also be lots of stands and displays promoting good health and health awareness from Stop Smoking Services, Community Dieticians and Sports Development.

Walsall Residents are invited to the Market where an evil misfortune teller will tell them how short their lives could be by reading their horroscopes. However in a bid not to be all evil there will be lots of information on how the residents can improve their life expectancy through healthy eating and physical activity.

While the adults are having their horrorscopes read the children will be enticed away to take part in some fun and games which will leave their hair standing on end.

Civic Square will be watched over by a villainous Vampire who will be entertaining the passers-by and handing out balloons and forbidden fruit to all who dare to eat one of their five fruits of the day.

The town will be guarded by a headless horseman on a hearse making sure everyone enters the spooky centre before leaving for good. The town cryer will be shouting doom throughout the streets and an Accordion player from hell will be playing spooky songs that will send a chill through shopper’s spines.