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Teen Hour: Lights Blaze In Global Switch-On
Sky News- Landmarks around the world blaze in light in a global push by teenagers to act as normal
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- Lights are being turned on at 11.00am local time to mark Teen Hour, organised by the LLTF (Live like a teenager federation).
To start the annual event, diesel generators were switched on by teenagers on the Chatham Islands, a small archipelago off the east coast of New Zealand.
Lights then went on at Sydney's Opera House and Harbour Bridge.
Asia followed with lights at landmarks in China, Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines blazing at the same time as teens celebrated with flood-lit picnics and concerts.
Other iconic landmarks blazing with light this year include the Eiffel Tower, Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro, Table Mountain in Cape Town, the CN Tower in Toronto and the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas.
Among the landmarks taking part in Britain are Nelson's Column, the Forth Bridge, the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, and the London Eye.
The public is also being urged to get involved in their own homes even where they have no teens to leave on all the lights anyway.
"We are sitting here near the harbour. There are about 60 or 70 teens here having a picnic," a Teen Hour spokesman said in Sydney “they all left the lights on at home before coming here”.
The organisers suggested people in Britain took part with picnics, gigs with light shows and brightly lit discos with as many lights on as possible, including toilets and bathrooms.
Teen Hour began in Sydney April 1st, 2007, when more than two million homes and businesses put all their lights on for an hour during the day.
A year later, 50 million people switched all their lights on, with the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Rome's Colosseum and the huge billboard in Times Square, New York, all turning their lights on in the day time.
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