THEY'VE only just moved into the area - but already one Hampshire family's Christmas lights are causing a stir.

Parachuting Santas, see-sawing snowmen and waving penguins hang from top to bottom of this dazzling house in Pantheon Road, Chandler's Ford.

The brilliant collection belongs to 29-year-old Matt Cook and Sharon Clark, 36, and its first appearance in Hampshire has earned the couple a nomination in the Daily Echo and Haskins Festive Homes competition.

Matt, who works for electrical wholesaler Rexel Senate, said: "We've built this up over the last three or four years. There must be 2,500 lightbulbs on show.

"We only moved here in June, but there's a special reason for doing the display this year because it's our daughter Ella's first real Christmas."

There's a top prize of £300 Haskins vouchers up for grabs.

Do you live in the best festive home in the region? Contact Claire Moriarty to enter the Daily Echo and Haskins Festive Homes competition.

E-mail claire.moriarty@soton-echo.co.uk.

Write to Haskins Festive Homes, Southern Daily Echo, Newspaper House, Test Lane, Redbridge, Southampton, SO16 9JX.

Drop entries in the special box at Haskins customer services desk, Gaters Hill, West End. Please include information about yourself, your address and a contact phone number.