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Christmas turn-off for Scots



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Published Date: 01 December 2008
SCOTS are turning into Scrooges when it comes to outdoor festive decorations this Christmas, research out today revealed.
Just 22 per cent of Scots plan to illuminate their neighbourhood with Santas, snowmen and reindeers in the run-up to 25 December.

Clydesdale Bank's quarterly Homebuyers' Report also revealed that

people in the north of Scotland were more likely to keep the Christmas lights going this year than anywhere else in the country.

Nearly 40 per cent of those questioned in the Highlands and 29 per cent in Grampian said they were planning a dazzling display.

However, only 19 per cent in Dundee, Angus, Fife and Perth said their homes would be lit up like Christmas trees this year.

In Glasgow and Edinburgh, 17 per cent of those polled said they would not be putting up outdoor decorations.

A sample of 1,000 people were questioned for the research.





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  • Last Updated: 01 December 2008 12:11 AM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

caithness,

north 01/12/2008 07:04:05
I'm not surprised, think of the elec bills!
2

Kirsty Boyd-Williamson,

New Town 01/12/2008 07:39:42
Anyone engaging in this dreadful American importation should be either publicly flogged or, at the very least, made the subject of an ASBO.
3

Boy Wonder,

01/12/2008 08:03:55
With the huge rise in lecky prices this year, is anybody actually surprised??
4

Spoot,

Third rock pool on the left 01/12/2008 09:27:21
Unusually for the Scotsman, there's something rather odd about this report. It seems to suggest that in Edinburgh and Glasgow 83% of those polled indicated their intention to put up outdoor decorations - highly unlikely, I would suggest.
5

Mcsnagpile,

01/12/2008 09:52:22
A want a box o rusty bolts fur ma Blunderbus, some oats fur the Christmas gruel, an a fresh candle.
6

long live the supermarkets,

every little hurts 01/12/2008 11:10:56
I know some people puts lots of lights outside and do it for charity but i am sure there are other ways to raise money plus its not good for the environment and if you live next door you have to put up with people looking in your house each night.
7

Guga II,

Rockall 01/12/2008 12:41:06
Christmas, the annual celebration of hypocrisy.
8

English flag,

01/12/2008 13:24:55
Guga II.What a miserable s-d you are!
9

Guga II,

Rockall 01/12/2008 15:40:17
#8 Butcher's Apron.

What's the matter? Does the truth hit home?
10

,

01/12/2008 18:06:46
Comment Removed By Administrator
Reason:
11

Poetess50,

01/12/2008 19:26:06
#2: I'm an American living in Scotland. Guess you wanna flog me, cause my home is ALL LIT UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
12

English flag,

02/12/2008 12:28:20
Funny how my comment @no 10 was removed,i told the truth,but apparently it's ok to call the flag of st.george a butchers apron! but not to say william wallace was stripped naked and dragged through the city at the heels of a horse to the Elms at Smithfield. He was hanged,drawn and quartered — strangled by hanging but released while still alive, emasculated, eviscerated etc, think the scotsman is afraid of the truth.

 

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