DO YOU like being festive inappropriately early? Have you already written your list for Santa? Despite Sleb Safari’s annual Keep Christmas to December campaign, novelty jumpers are in the shops, the mad neighbours down the road have had their tree and lights up since Halloween and a new glut of celebrity autobiographies are out just in time for you to buy them for that odd uncle you don’t really know.

"Never ask of money spent/ Where the spender thinks it went," the American poet Robert Frost wrote.

MEDICINE suppliers have warned the Department of Health they may not be able to supply drugs to community pharmacies amid fears the businesses cannot afford to pay their bills, a group representing pharmacists has said.

THE sign of peace was suspended at Masses in the Diocese of Down and Connor at the weekend as part of efforts to stop the spread of flu.

A MAN in his fifties has been found dead by firefighters in east Belfast.

HEALTH workers could strike in the new year over a pay row.