It seems like a galaxy far, far away where toys linked to films were a cottage industry and not a multi-billion pound franchises, and where manufacturers and retailers could be doubtful about the success of a new film called Star Wars.
What do you get when you mix some festive cheer, a Christmas sing-a-long, 12,500 cookies, dancing in the aisles and half a tonne of the best hot chocolate for miles? Why, the Polar Express train ride of course!
Norfolk's Lady Glenconner reveals why she and her sister plotted to kill Hitler, how she still slips into Holkham Hall to see the public walking around the rooms she used to play in and why she isn't bitter about losing her family's inheritance to an employee.
Father Christmas has taken some time out of his busy schedule to meet children across Norfolk and your little ones are spoilt for choice with these brilliant Santa's grottos.
Lady Glenconner calls her book "a love letter to Norfolk" but it's also the story of a Royal friendship with Princess Margaret that lasted a lifetime and an absolutely staggering memoir. In the first of two features, Stacia Briggs speaks to Lady Anne about her extraordinary life.
From the return of Norwich's Tunnel of Light to Thetford's Winter Wonderland, get into the festive spirit at these Christmas light switch-ons across Norfolk and Waveney.
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