CANDY cane balloons arch over a hallway door, a beautifully decorated tree stands in a corner and prettily wrapped gifts lie all over the house.
At the dinner table, Laura Nuttall and her family tuck into a full turkey dinner and pull crackers as they celebrate Christmas six weeks early.
Laura, 22, called the festivities last Sunday her “insurance policy”.
After surviving an aggressive brain cancer for four years, she has been told there is now little hope of survival.
Yet she refuses to give in, determined to celebrate a second Christmas on December 25.