Our lead story is about the Santa’s Picnic on the Pepe which is on Saturday 21st December. Pack your picnic gear, snacks, rugs or chairs and enjoy an afternoon of music and entertainment in the lead-up till Christmas. Inside, there’s an article about an unwanted pest this summer, and a column of Short & Sweet to round off your reading.

Barry's What's Your Score: adept, aped, date, dated, dead, deaden, dean, deed, deep, dent, dented, depend, DEPENDANT, ended, need, panned, panted, pendant, penned, tanned, teed, tended (22)