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Tips to ensure your Christmas goes off with the right kind of a bang
Posted 18 December 2019 | JoTS Online
Content Tags: Analysis|Health and Safety|National
ANALYSIS: Cheap festive bargains can carry hidden risks. As Christmas spending rises, this article explains how unsafe lights, decorations and seasonal products reach the market, and offers practical advice for safer shopping.
Christmas often brings with it the temptation to over-indulge. Last year’s New Year resolutions were abandoned some time around the beginning of February and the urge to splurge – on food, presents and decorations – takes over as the run-up to Christmas intensifies.
This is probably particularly true when there are children around – nobody wants to be a Grinch, and no one wants the kids t...
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