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The decorations are up, letters to Santa posted and we have a great giveaway to really ramp up the Christmas spirit in the run-up to the big day.

With just two weeks to go before Christmas Day, the festivities are well underway - particularly when it comes to treating the taste buds.

The annual scramble for Christmas presents is well and truly underway. Fiona Evans rummages around for ethical stocking fillers.

Kevin Bryan delivers his verdict on some of this week’s alternative CD releases

Strictly Come Dancing fans will be overjoyed to hear that the full line-up of celebrities and their professional partners for next year’s Strictly Come Dancing UK Arena Tour has been announced.

Social media and celebrity culture is helping drive the rise of veganism. Reporter Charlie Bullough looks at why the number of vegans in Britain has quadrupled in four years.

The innovative theatre company Far Out Theatre, have decided to expand their adult pantomime showings at Sheffield’s Library Theatre to Worksop’s Acorn Community Theatre, due to popular demand.

After going against the grain with their beautifully made but uncharacteristically straight western True Grit, the unorthodox Coen brothers offer up this witty, ironic, outrageously funny and achingly sad collection of western stories, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, writes Natalie Stendall.

Kevin Bryan delivers his verdict on some of this week’s alternative CD releases

Forget your full English fry-up - a Derbyshire B&B is offering customers a weird and wonderful breakfast.

A touring production by the National Theatre of one of Shakespeare’s most well-known plays has opened at the Lyceum in Sheffield, writes Alan Payne.

Celebrating the countdown to Christmas has never been more exciting thanks to the array of unique and quirky advent calendars on the market.

Everyone loves a Sunday roast and we all love a takeaway too.

In tribute to Wayne Rooney, who brought the curtain down on his international career this week, here are the sharpest shooters ever to wear Three Lions on their shirt.

As a fairly fanatical Disney household just how the beloved animated stories would translate on to the ice rink was a source of some consternation as we took our seats for the latest ‘Dream Big’ show at Sheffield’s FlyDSA Arena.

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JD Wetherspoon is a well-loved national pub chain, popular for good value food and drink.

Cask ale sales are “nose-diving’ but it can be brought back from the brink.