Christmas crackers are a Christmas lunch staple, but there's a huge difference in terms of gift quality and our testing shows that you can't always trust what's on the box. We looked at the contents ...

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Disheartened by the waste associated with Christmas crackers, Louisa Tratalos, founder of bespoke fabric studio Colours of Arley, decided to make her own, using striped fabric from her family’s mill ...

Many elements of Christmas have seeped into the year's other headline occasions. You can now get wreaths for Easter and Halloween (however inadvisably). The less said about Halloween Christmas trees, ...

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Christmas is almost here and any day now we are due to be digging into our Christmas lunches, eating our body weight in prawns and enjoying the silly season. As is tradition, the only way to kick off ...