Tickets have gone on sale for an outdoor ice rink offering people a chance to enjoy some frozen fun in the week leading up to Christmas Day.

The synthetic ice rink will be located in St James’s Street, Burnley, and will be open from Saturday, December 17, until Friday, December 23, from 10am until 4pm.

Tickets, which cost £5, can be bought online via the Burnley Mechanics Theatre website, by phone or in person at the theatre’s box office - and sales have been swift so far.

Skates will be provided for all attendees and each session will last 30 minutes.

Burnley Business Improvement District (BID) project manager Andrew Dean hopes people combine a skate with a trip to the town’s businesses for some Christmas shopping and a winter warmer or two.

He said: “This year’s Ice Rink provides the perfect opportunity for people to have some festive fun and get into the Christmas spirit with their friends and loved ones while hopefully supporting our local traders at the same time.

“Why not come and have a skate before heading for a drink or bite to eat or maybe sort the last of the Christmas shopping before taking to the ice?

“Our businesses would love to see you this Christmas and there’s never been a more important time to support local.”

The activity will provide the finale to the town’s Christmas celebrations which began with the lights switch-on in November and have continued with a range of events including a Christmas artisan market, Burnley College’s Winter Wonderland, performers and characters at Charter Walk and a number of yuletide activities at Burnley Markets.

This year’s rink is kindly sponsored by Burnley Leisure, Burnley Pantomime Society, Holiday Inn Express Burnley, Anchor Group Services and Birchall Foodservice.