Christmas

Those looking forward to getting in the festive spirit can now plan ahead as the dates for Newark Christmas light switch on and markets are revealed.

Tickets to Christmas at the National Trust’s beautiful Belton House are now on sale for its spectacular seasonal trail, which returns later this year.

Argos has named the top 15 items it thinks will dominate Christmas wish lists this year and among them is a £10 dinosaur bath toy.

Young performers will once again have the chance to shine on stage as the Palace Theatre Newark brings back its junior pantomime auditions.

A town council has been highly commended for its Christmas lights switch-on and evening market.

More than 700 children visited Santa at his Newark grotto this year, helping to raise £5,500 for a children’s bereavement charity.

With festivities over for another year, one couple have been busy rescuing Christmas trees to give them a forever home.

A family raised almost £1,300 for Beaumond House Hospice Care with a dazzling festive lights display.

It was a slight increase in arrests compared to the same period the previous year.

Aldi has supported charities, community groups and foodbanks in Nottinghamshire by donating 14,800 meals to people in need over Christmas.

The nursery helped the less fortunate by collecting items for a foodbank.

Our girls have been on strike and I actually had to buy half a dozen eggs!

Magnus C of E Academy has gifted every year seven student a book for Christmas on an exciting day that also saw the book’s author delivering a talk.

Members of the u3a got festive this month with a Christmas party.

Residents are once again able to recycle their real Christmas trees through Newark and Sherwood’s Christmas tree recycling programme.

Staff at an estate agent have rallied to give to those less fortunate in the community by backing the Salvation Army’s toy appeal.

Residents of a care home sang along to festive songs during a surprise visit from an instrumental band.

Police have confirmed the death of a woman at a house in Newark before Christmas was not suspicious.

The Advertiser has opened its archives to look at what was in the news in December 1996, 1971 and 1921.

The pantomime dame has been a staple in British theatre for centuries, but do we still need them or are they outdated and rooted in mockery?