Week in review: Do we know it's Christmas? Joseph Johnson/Stuff It is not starting to look a lot like Christmas if these tatty decorations are anything to go by. The great 2017 tinsel shortageIt was a couple of days before Christmas and all through the city, people had not really noticed because Christchurch's decorations looked so tatty and shabby. The Christchurch City Council budget of just $35,000 for Christmas decorations is reportedly a third of the sum spent in the bustling metropolis of Nelson. And a new big empty green space has opened in the so-called east frame, almost next door to the existing big empty green space known as Latimer Square.

Source: Stuff December 22, 2017 16:03 UTC