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Issue:- 03 January 2013

Please note that this edition has been published late on the Friday, due to New Year Holidays,  sorry for the unusual delay.

Did you spot Santa?

WELL Santa is back home now and his Elves are enjoying a well earned rest after another Christmas Eve marathon trip. We hope you enjoyed our Santa Watch Live WebCam  and that Father Christmas got to you ok. If you did not see him we have this 24hr time lapse clip from the webcam for you to view. We hope to have the Cam back in action for you for Christmas 2014, and are in contact with the big man in red for his help. We would like to thank EmailSanta.com and also all the other sites we have been linked with this Christmas. Did you know that Santa has to go 3,000 times the speed of sound and deliver 822 homes a second! So his reindeers are pulling the sleigh at a staggering 650miles a second! So a massive thank you to Father Christmas for slowing down so our WebCam could glimpse him as he passed on by, delivering to an estimated 1.6 billion children on Christmas Eve.


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We can also say that well done to NORAD (North American Aerospace Defence Command), who this year handled an estimated 12,000 emails and more than 70,000 telephone calls from more than 2 hundred countries; thanks to all the NORAD staff volunteers. They have been doing this since 24 December 1955, when they placed an advert in the USA, in a Colorado Springs' newspaper in which they invited young readers to contact Santa...

Christmas Lights raise cash for Charity

A local Formby resident was lighting up his house for Charity this Christmas. This is nothing new and many others do this, but we had been told that we should take a look, so over Christmas we popped round to the house located on Beechwood Drive. The house, each year, raises cash for OCD-UK, which is a rather overlooked charity. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental health condition which affects a person's ability to function normally because obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviour. Shockingly, according to the charity, based on current estimates for the UK population, there are potentially around 741,504 people living with OCD at any one time. Add to that the fact that upward of 50% of all these cases will fall into the severe category, with less than a quarter being classed as mild cases. OCD-UK is the leading national charity, independently working with and for almost 1 million children and adults whose lives are affected by the condition. Well done to the owners of this house, who are pictured above for putting on this display and shining a light on OCD in Formby.

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