As I look out of my hotel room window, Christmas lights sparkle while the magnificent Windsor Castle looms large.
Elected community representatives who do not spend most of their £10,000 allowance to respond to local needs should be named and shamed, a North Yorkshire Council committee has been told.
Here are some of the television highlights coming up in the week starting Saturday, November 11, including the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance and Children in Need.
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