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This week in YOUR FAB VALUE

Our MAD WORLD! • Guaranteed to make you smile!

HEART OF STONE • As Toni knelt at her baby’s headstone, decorating it for Christmas, an unspeakable act was brewing...

SACRILEGE!

WE’RE PRANGING IN THE AIIIIR... • When a snowman crashed Kia ’s Christmas she thought she was going crackers...

Branch out • Baubles to it! Put a bit of fun in your decs this year...

Bark the herald angles sing • Nativity pups? It makes perfect frankincense to Lois...

MURDER MAP When EVIL is in YOUR town... Christmas MOURNING • The pressies were wrapped, the family safe in bed. Then someone came creeping in the darkness – more Satan than Santa…

HAPPY  Coughmas! • The big day just won’t be the same this year...

GET RICH QUICK!

ANIMAL MAGIC • Forget John Lewis. If you’re looking for festive feels, Robert is your man…

Crimbo cringe • Decked in her snowman jumper, Debra was feeling the heat…

Scary Christmas! • Ana’s pressie to her little boy really was da bomb…

THE GRINCH • Charlotte’s son’s first Christmas lay in ruins. And the culprit would break her heart...

IN THE pink OF AN EYE • A rose-tinted Christmas Day for Nina ended with the very last presents her girl would ever give…

TOY TIME! • Stuck for what to get your little darlings this year? Then sneak a peek at the best toys this Xmas…

TOY TIME 2 • Yule love these stocking fillers…

MUM to MUM • No one can give better advice to a mum facing a hard time than another mum who’s been there herself…

Win!

Mum KNOWS BEST • OUR PANEL OF MUMS IS HAPPY TO HELP

A Christmas CARRY-ON • When the ghost of Crimbo Past visited Madeleine, it was more Psycho than psychic...

YOUR STARS • HOROSCOPES for the fortnight of 12–25 Nov

GUESS the STAR SIGN

Big bottles of Baileys

Real people Roulette

Tree’s a CHARM • Vicky went out to Ikea for her spruce... and Ronald McDonald for her family!

A Sony digital camera!

HAPPY glaze • Oh sweet heavens, honey on the turkey?! Whatever next...

UNDER THE knife • Here’s our top picks for your Christmas Day carve-up from your fave supermarkets...

Health & happiness

CHRISTMAS FOR ONE? • If you’re set to be Billy No Bubble this year, don’t despair! Psychotherapist Brian Turner gives his top tips to help you get through the big day solo…

A RED-HOT Kindle Fire tablet!

Lost In Moo-sic

MOO AM I?

A blissful two-night break for two!

LOVE in the time of CORONA • It’s the year when life’s milestones changed deeply. What was it like to say hello baby, I do, or goodbye in the shadow of the pandemic? For these readers, memories of 2020 will be unlike any other...

FLORENCE’S TAKE YOUR PICK!

GRAB the GEAR... • What will you choose – treasure hunt or cash in the attic?

...OR GO FOR THE CASH!

Surprise! • A shopping mall on a wall? Yep, it’s advent calendar season...

A bumper BIG SHOP! • Fill your trolley with treats at your favourite supermarket!

COINING IT IN! • Bob says, where there’s muck there’s multi-million pound brass — you just need a metal detector to find it, as these jammy diggers will tell you...

What happens if you find treasure?

CHAIN REACTION • Lisa was glueing paper decorations for Christmas with the kids, but the Grinch had a gun...

OUR COVID HEROES • Shielding and lonely, starved of physical contact, who were the emotional crutches for our most vulnerable...