WE at the Evening Advertiser want all our readers to have a very happy Christmas at the end of what has been an eventful and traumatic year.

While we should all make merry and have a thoroughly good time, it should also be a time to reflect and consider those less fortunate than ourselves.

There have been devastating events throughout the world and the effects will be keenly felt during the next couple of days.

Bear this in mind as you have a happy and hopefully peaceful Christmas.