No rest for the Navy at Christmas
South West Navy personnel are some of the one-in-seven staff working on Christmas Day.
Snow White, seven dwarfs and lots of laughs
Theatres across the west are putting on pantomimes and Bath is showing Snow White for only the second time in its history
Getting ready for Text Santa
ITV1 is hosting its charity programme Text Santa tonight. It supports national charities which help people in the West Country region.
Live updates
"Treecycle" your Christmas tree
As the festive season draws to a close, we're being asked to 'treecycle' when we get rid of our Christmas trees. Somerset Waste Partnership says they can be composted, chipped or shredded instead of sending them to landfill where it will produce greenhouse gases.
No rest for the Navy at Christmas
South West Navy personnel are some of the one-in-seven staff working on Christmas Day.
Read the full storyAdvertisement
Snow White, seven dwarfs and lots of laughs
Theatres across the west are putting on pantomimes and Bath is showing Snow White for only the second time in its history
Read the full storyGetting ready for Text Santa
ITV1 is hosting its charity programme Text Santa tonight. It supports national charities which help people in the West Country region.
Read the full storyBath school children sing 'The Holly and the Mistletoe'
All this week schoolchildren from around the region have been getting us in the Christmas spirit by singing carols.
Tonight we're in Bath and the children of Oldfield Park Junior School are singing 'The Holly and the Mistletoe':
Text Santa: Anthony Nolan helps Dorset girl
The countdown is on to Text Santa, our big, star-studded charity fundraiser, on ITV1 tomorrow night.
It aims to raise money for six chosen charities, including Anthony Nolan that helps people with blood cancer.
One of those it helps is 9 year old Issy Miller from Dorset. She will spend this Christmas in hospital, isolated from the rest of the world, after under-going a life-saving bone marrow transplant.
She was diagnosed with Leukaemia in September but working with Anthony Nolan, Bristol Children's Hospital quickly found a donor match to go ahead with the procedure.
Richard Payne has followed Issy's story before and after the transplant:
For more information on Anthony Nolan, visit their website here.
And if you'd like to know more about Text Santa go here.
Advertisement
Getting away for some guaranteed sunshine
Bristol Airport has seen the start of its busiest time of the year. 8 flights left in the space of just 20 minutes this morning, with travellers heading to destinations such as Malta, Palma and Sharm el Sheik.
56,000 people will leave from the airport over the next few days - an average of 120 flights and 14,500 passengers every day.
As Tanya Mercer reports, there are those coming back home to the south west for Christmas too:
Advice issued to Christmas travellers
Bristol Airport are advising passengers to be aware of security regulations before they travel. This includes leaving Christmas presents unwrapped.
People leave Bristol ahead of Christmas
Christmas getaway begins
The Christmas getaway has already begun for the region's busiest airport.
More than 50,000 people will leave from Bristol Airport over the next few days - that's an average of 120 flights and 14,500 thousand passengers every day. They're the busiest days of the year.
Eight flights left in the space of just 20 minutes this morning, with travellers heading for some sunshine to destinations such as Malta, Palma and Sharm el Sheik.