Santa is well looked after in UK! £5M well looked after!

GENEROUS Brits will treat Father Christmas and his reindeers to a bumper £5,081,739 festive feast this year.
As three in four folk brush aside the credit crunch in favour of sticking to good old family festive traditions, it appears Santa won't need to tighten his belt.
2,800,000 mince pies, 236,800 pork pies, and 672,000 slices of Christmas cake will be washed down with 1,044,000 pints of ale, 4,320,000 glasses of sherry, 1,466,400 cups of tea and 1,440,000 nips of whiskey. Meanwhile, Rudolf and his six reindeers will tuck into 7,920,000 carrots.
Nigel White, general manager at Pork Farms said: “It’s great to see the public offering good old British hospitality and a true taste of the nation to Santa this year; we’re busy making sure the shelves are fully stocked ahead of his arrival.
Pork pies are the perfect yuletide grub, and even better shared, so we hope he takes some back for Mrs Santa.”
Santa John, from the UK’s official Santa school in London, said: “Mince pies have gone down in my estimation since that Cromwell fellow banned them in the 17th century; I love a pork pie, oh, and my Rudolph loves the jelly!”

Romanian Santa Record!

Almost 4,000 people in the Romanian capital have set a new record for the most people dressed as Santa Claus and giving out gifts at the same time.
A total of 3,939 red and white clad people gathered in front of the parliament building in Bucharest.
Watched by a representative of Guinness World Records, they paraded through the city handing out gifts.
Romania hopes to break other records after Christmas, including the world's largest sausage and the longest cake.
"It's Christmas spirit, we're all better and more generous this time of year," the Bucharest Herald quoted Mayor Sorin Oprescu as saying.
Speaking as the volunteers donned their outfits, Guinness representative Lucia Sinigagliesi said the minimum requirement for the record to be judged was a "very challenging" 3,000.
"We never know what really is going to happen with mass participation records but it looks very good."
"There are a lot of people already, so we are hoping for the best," she said.
When the record was confirmed, Ms Sinigagliesi presented a certificate to the mayor, to delight of the massed Santas.
The event easily broke a previous record of 3,618 simultaneously gift-giving Santas, set in Taiwan, in 2003.

Belfast's Black Santa

Belfast's ever popular Black Santa has begun his annual Christmas sit-out for charity.
Dean Houston McKelvey will, as has become tradition, brave the elements outside St Anne's Cathedral each day until Christmas Eve.
This continues a tradition started by Dean Sammy Crooks in 1976.
Dean McKelvey first sat out seven years ago, following in the footsteps of his predecessor Dean Jack Shearer, who died in January 2001.
Dean Shearer was initially dubbed Black Santa by the media because of his distinctive clothing and the name caught on among the public.
The appeal raises money for various charities in Northern Ireland as well as Christian Aid.

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