A children's character will join the mayor to switch on Dover's Christmas lights tomorrow.

Kung Fu Panda and Cllr Sue Jones will push down the plunger at 5pm at Market Square.

This will be the hightlight of the Dover Christmas weekend, which is overall from 11am to 6pm tomorrow plus 10-am to 4pm next day.

Entertainment is on throughout the weekend at the Market Square Road Show with performances from Dover Youth Theatre, Robbie White, St Edmunds School Choir and more.

Throughout tomorrow there will be special performances featuring, Christmas Tree, Jack Frost and Reindeer Stilt Walkers plus a Chinese lion and dragon dancing.

Special screenings of Kung Fu Panda Winter Wonderland will be shown at the square's Silver Screen cinema tomorrow at 2.30pm, 3.20pm and 4.15pm.

There will also be stalls during the weekend such as the Student Makers Market, children's activity workshop and the Dover Big Locals special festive workshop.

In addition there will be rides and games for children, traditional funfair game stalls plus a special Rodeo Reindeer.

Santa will be in his grotto, supported by the South Foreland and Dover Rotary Clubs.

Kung Fu Panda is the lead character in a series computer-animated comedy martial arts films, which began in 2008.

The franchise has also spawned a TV series.

Last year the town's Christmas lights were turned on by the parents of Kelly Turner, Martin and Linda.

There had been great poignancy amid those celebrations as Kelly, 17, had died the month before from a rare cancer.

This was following a massive fundraising campaign by townspeople to pay for treatment to save her life.