A five-year-old girl who fell ill at a Christmas party and given just hours to live has died after a special final few hours with her mother. Isla Wilkinson’s heart stopped beating after she woke on Tuesday with a temperature and a cough. Her mother Alex Williams – a former St John’s volunteer – had to perform … Read more
Melania Trump paid secret visits to a Washington D.C children’s hospital over three years where she met and kept up a friendship with a teenage cancer patient. Fighting leukemia from her bed at Children’s National Hospital, Caoilinn Lane met the first lady in 2017 in her hospital bed at Children’s National Hospital. Melania had quietly … Read more
Things have been busy at Hafod Hardware recently. With Christmas around the corner, people are stocking up at this handsome traditional store in the heart of mid-Wales, as well as buying stocking-fillers — a calendar here, a decorative jug there. In that sense it’s business as usual — that is, apart from the endless trill … Read more
The shows of Christmas past: Streaming service BritBox allows viewers to watch Christmas Day schedules from 1986 and 1996 Eastenders special where ‘Dirty Den’ gave Angie divorce papers will be available Only Fools And Horses episode A Royal Flush can also be watched on BritBox The service’s subscribers can watch the classics online or TV from … Read more
Gavin and Stacey BBC1, Christmas Day Rating: What’s occurin’? The return of Gavin and Stacey on Christmas Day, that’s what. Tidy! In a year when festive telly is looking decidedly underwhelming, this hour-long special from one of the nation’s best-loved sitcoms is a welcome treat. Better still, the writing by co-stars James Corden and Ruth … Read more
Chemist cracks the secret of a ‘chemically perfect’ mulled wine… never let it get hotter than 79C PhD student Laura Powell from Hampshire created the recipe in a laboratory Her recipe includes red wine, lemon, oranges or clementines, sugar and vanilla She says only the fruit peel should be mixed in because they give flavour By David … Read more
Cliff Richard sends video message of support to girl, six, who survived a brain tumour and hopes to hit the Christmas no. 1 with her version of When A Child Is Born… but needs a little prompting to know who he is Lyra Cole, from Highbridge in Somerset, had emergency 11-hour surgery She is now … Read more
John Julius Norwich has compiled the funniest stories of the year to send to friends in a hilarious new book Every Christmas, acclaimed historian John Julius Norwich sent his friends a sparkling selection of anecdotes, poems and quotes, entitled Christmas Crackers, that amused him. Word of their brilliance spread, and he was persuaded to publish … Read more
Girl, five, is given hours to live after her brain was starved of oxygen for 20 minutes when her heart stopped beating as her nine-year-old brother vows to give her the ‘perfect princess’ funeral Isla Wilkinson’s heart stopped after she woke up morning after Christmas party Her mother Alex Williams had to perform CPR until … Read more
Google Santa Tracker is LIVE and the countdown to Christmas Day has begun with a range of activities and games to play in Santa’s digital ‘village’ Games including a ‘wrap battle’ and an ‘elf maker’ are now live on the site The games are ‘suitable for any age’ and can even help teach children coding … Read more
It wouldn’t be Christmas without someone brandishing a colourful tin of Quality Street – leading to a fight over the last Green Triangle. But not all of the flavours we’ve come to know and love in the purple octagonal box have been part of the mix since the sweets were created. A Quality Street representative … Read more
Shocking moment mindless vandal rips down store’s Christmas lights as he wanders past munching a burger Man walking past Boodles stores Christmas display grabs a chain of lights He rips them from the wall as he walks along the street before dropping them Caught on CCTV at corner of Lord Street and North John Street … Read more
Is eating this ‘superfruit’ the secret to a hangover-free Christmas? Expert reveals how blackcurrants boost your body’s ability to break down alcohol Blackcurrants are a ‘superfruit’ which could spare you from a crippling hangover Contain chemicals which speed up process of breakdown of alcohol inside body Rich in anthocyanins – pigments in the fruit’s skin … Read more