200 patients treated at A&E a dayAS anyone who's ever had too much brandy in their brandy butter and got themselves into a scrape on Christmas Eve will tell you, the accident and emergency department of Perterborough District Hospital is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
Fireman John Chelton on the night shiftJohn will be working as a firefighter on Christmas Eve, finishing at 9am on Christmas morning, and starting again at 6pm for the night shift.
Busy down on the farmPeter Thompson will be spending a good chunk of December 25 feeding pigs, geese, ducks, cows – and Jill the cat.
It's business as usual at the CathedralTHE dozen or so boxes of white wine stacked up in the Dean of Peterborough's hall give you some idea that he's gearing up for the party season.
December might be all about decking the hall with boughs of holly for most of us, but for some people, this is the busiest time of the year, and anything but restful:
Myrtle's old fashioned puddingsWALK into Myrtle Allen's house in Hampton Vale and you'll stumble over cardboard boxes stuffed to the gills with some of the most delicious things in the world.
Ex-nurse has grown her tree businessMiriam and her business partner Pat O'Flaherty have been supplying Christmas trees of all shapes and sizes to families in and around Ketton since buying 10 acres of land there 12 years ago.
'My favourite part of the job is looking after them'The turkey-farming Shacklock family will sell that many birds through local butchers and out of their farm shop.
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