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Waitrose and John Lewis are to stop selling Christmas crackers containing plastic toys from 2020 as part of plans to cut down on single-use plastic. Instead crackers will be filled with toys made ...

Another commercial Christmas industry was borne by Victorians in 1848 when a British confectioner ... he came up with the idea of the Christmas cracker: a simple package filled with sweets ...

He picked his school, Gunton Primary, and staff suggested Christmas crackers for pupils' school Christmas meals. Harry said, he and his three-year-old sister, Jessica, had "saved Christmas".