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The all-singing, all-dancing festive film is one of this year’s must-watch Christmas flicks.

[Random clippings from my collection - see No. 1 for a brief explanation/No. 2] This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn-out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined…

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Like many onscreen Scrooges before him, Ryan Reynolds' character in "Spirited" is told that he will face his past, present and future. But he surprises even the spirit haunting him upon raising his hand and asking: "Like 'A Christmas Carol'? The Dickens story? The Bill Murray movie with Bobcat Goldthwait?"

Audiences can choose from a glut of Ebenezers this festive season, with the infamous miser a more pointed character than ever in these hard times

Netflix has turned the classic Charles Dickens novel into an animated musical boasting a stellar cast

Historic England has added 175 places to its Heritage at Risk Register of buildings under threat as a result of decay, neglect or inappropriate development

Historic England has added 175 places to its Heritage at Risk Register of buildings under threat.

Ken O'Hara's MAD Productions' retelling of the Christmas classic will visit a variety of venues across the region.

FANS of a good business lunch are up in arms after Simpson’s Tavern, where Charles Dickens is said to have been a patron, has closed its doors. The venue, which opened in 1757 and calls itself the oldest chophouse in London, shut last month and may not reopen.

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