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FROM late November until Christmas Eve, I become an Elf on The Santa Specials at Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway. “Trains roll into Princes Risborough station with a team of Elves on board, oft

THERE’S been a complaint,” Mr Busby says when, only two days into my new job, he calls me into his office. I’m still in my ill-fitting Santa outfit and my fake beard has brought my face out in an itch

Held in high esteem and lavished with furs, velvet and precious stones, young male choristers-turned-bishops were all the rage at Christmas in the Middle Ages, says Matthew Dennison

Meet the people who transform our beloved buildings into festive wonderlands each Christmas

The Church of the Nativity still moves millions of people to tears and represents the power of hope. It is why, says the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie, we flock to our local church at Christmas, no matter how far removed it may seem