It took 12 people three weeks to bring our legendary festive issue cover to life – but detail is everything, as Nick Park explains

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Today’s queues may be digital, but the fight to secure that must-have present and avoid small, disappointed faces is timeless. Tom Howells looks at the toys topping recent (and less recent) Christmas wish lists

TO Jon’s surprise, Mr Pringle agreed to speak to him in the snug. Once they were seated there, Jon spoke quietly. “I’m a stranger here, and I want to keep an open mind. “So it would help if you could

It has been 24 years since Kiefer Sutherland first barked orders into a flip phone in 24, the headlong war-on-terror TV drama that elevated raspy CTU agent Jack Bauer into the all-time action-hero pan

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