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—Gold prices fell in early trade after Powell dimmed hopes for further interest-rate cuts in December.

However, Daniel Harriman-McCartney, clinical advisor at the College of Optometrists, said automatic dimming features can be "slow to kick in".

As the light dimmed and the night chilled, the smiling crowds held up cell phone lights giving the gathering a festival-like atmosphere.

Wind thrashes around the car park in the dim dawn light, rattling the corrugated supermarket shutters and sending discarded carrier bags billowing as rain tumbles on to the asphalt.

Friday's overnight visit was sold out, as are the November and December events, but in the end, a few cots were empty when the lights dimmed.