The North Pole

Here are some photos of Santa's North Pole Grotto, located in the Galleries shopping centre.
It is such a realistic depiction of the North Pole that it's fooled several leading polar explorers.

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, OBE, the famous explorer, recently turned up with half a team of huskies (he'd had to eat the others), only to find he was in the wrong place.

"When I arrived there something seemed wrong," said the posh git, "there were far more people there than I expected. Then it dawned on me that I was in a shopping mall. I felt a right Wally"

The Polar Exploration Society has urged the council to improve signage to prevent a repeat of this tragedy.