Leicester City Football Club Manager Claudio Ranieri performed this year’s switch-on ceremony for the Merlyn Vaz Christmas Tree.
The Merlyn Vaz Tree is lit every year in memory of Merlyn Vaz, Leicester’s first female Asian Councillor. Previous guests of honour have included Rev Jesse Jackson the Civil Rights Leader; Indian Bollywood Star – Dharmendra, from BBC’s Eastenders, and Goodness Gracious Me – Nina Wadia; from Coronation Street – Shobhna Gulati, Local Boxing Champion Rendall Munroe and Bhasker Patel who plays Rishi Sharma in ITV’s programme “Emmerdale”.
