I took my wife immediately to the big box hardware store and picked up two fake Christmas trees, about 2,000 colored lights, a light ball and whatever ... Ebenezer Scrooge? Or perhaps the Grinch?

Helen Ball, Shrewsbury town council’s clerk ... We love visiting Scrooge’s gravestone every Christmas.” Others hailed the prop as “part of Shrewsbury’s history”.

How is Scrooge like this? Scrooge is stingy with his money and will not even allow his clerk Bob Cratchit to have a decent fire to warm him on Christmas Eve. Evidence...as the clerk came in with ...

When Scrooge is a young man Dickens describes him dancing to a determined fiddler at a Christmas ball, whereas in his later life Scrooge throws rulers at doors to shoo away carollers. The decline ...