Xmas

He used innuendoes to refer to money, on one occasion messaging Gill: "I've received all promised Xmas gifts and requested five more postcards for your kind help next week during the debate."

Another added: "Xmas has come early this year".

One of those men was Kevin Hammer, a Brooklyn native once referred to in the local news as the “Bill Gates of Xmas Trees.”

She added that although it will be "so tough to spend Xmas Day in hospital instead of being surrounded by family", getting rid of her tumour will be "the best present of all".

Half a century after Slade recorded their massive hit single Merry Xmas Everybody, Noddy Holder said strangers still ask him to shout his "It's Christmas" catchphrase.