CHRISTMAS has come to Teesside a month early - with the arrival of Santa and his reindeer. Middlesbrough came to a stop for the VIP yesterday. The town centre was cordoned off to traffic to allow Santa a smooth journey to his grotto in the Cleveland shopping Centre.
Father Christmas brought plenty of helpers with him. There was a supporting community carnival parade of 140 children dressed as snowmen and other attractions.
It is the seventh year Santa has been pulled through the town centre by reindeer, not from Greenland, but the Cairngorms in Scotland. Hundreds of families turned out to see him arrive.
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