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Baker Jane Dunn rustled up a 'genius' chocolate alternative to the classic Christmas pudding - here's how to make it

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5 hours ago Tyson Fury comes out to Mariah Carey classic but boxing 'Santa' still can't beat Usyk

Despite Tyson Fury's best efforts - including his ringside march where he belted out the Christmas classic - Oleksandr Usyk emerged victorious for the second time in a row

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14 hours ago Some cinematic turkeys are so bad they achieve a kind of trascendence. Last Christmas, for one | Kathryn Bromwich

You can’t simply set out to create a so-bad-it’s-good classic. But this year’s thinly veiled Taylor Swift biopic, Christmas in the Spotlight, could be a contenderAs a lifelong enthusiast of the “so-bad-it’s-good” sub-strand of cinema, I approach every Christmas with a mix of excitement and trepidation. If at one end of the spectrum we have magical Christmas films (It’s a Wonderful Life, Home Alone, Jingle All the Way), passing through the slurry of mediocre, sentimental seasonal cash-ins, what I hope to find at the other extreme is something so truly awful it achieves a peculiar kind of transcendence.Some recent contenders were Last Christmas (a January resolution to eat more vegetables masquerading as a Christmas film; weird Brexit subplot; insufficient George Michael) and Cats (genuinely creepy, but giving way to a confusing, cumulative high as the film progresses, so that by the time Judi Dench says “a cat is not a dog” you have reached a sort of collective hysteria). Continue re...

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20 hours ago All Creatures Great and Small Christmas: what time is classic special on

Get in the festive spirit with this Christmas classic 🐑

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20 hours ago How well do you know your Christmas number ones? Take our quiz and find out

Wham! have scored a Christmas number one and number two with their festive classic Last Christmas - but can you remember if these hits were festive chart-toppers or near misses?

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