More than 80,000 people a year end up in hospital following yuletide mishaps, while even more suffer the effects of too much food and alcohol. Love, too, seems doomed, with divorce rates rising by 40 per cent in the new year.
Concentrating on the lighter side of festive disasters,
Matt Allwright offers a humorous package of Christmas calamities that have befallen members of the British public and finds that even celebrities are not immune.
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