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Monkey

Mail keeps up Christmas tradition

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Be good or Santa will bring you the Only Fools and Horses box set for Christmas. Photograph: Con Tanasiuk/Design Pics/Corbis

Ah - don't you just love those festive traditions that mark the run-up to the big day? Writing your Chrissy pressie list. Some minor celeb turning on the Oxford Street lights. Wretched hangovers after medialand end-of-year parties. The Daily Mail's annual "outrage at Christmas repeats on TV" story. Monkey is glad to say the paper finally delivered today. The tale begins "It seems turkey won't be the only familiar fare served up this Christmas", as it the case for the story - here is 2006's. However, there is one annual festive tradition that hasn't yet reared its head - the press release from Lib Dim culture spokesman Don Foster decrying the number of festive repeats on TV. In both 2006 and 2007 Don came up with the goods. But no word yet so far this year - come on Don, what's keeping you? There's only 21 shopping days left.

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