Please make a note in your diaries that the advertising copy deadline for issues 960 (December 20), 961 (December 27) and 962 (January 3) is December 17.

The Courier office will be closed from December 20, from 1pm, so please have your advertising copy in before December 17 so that proofs can be sent and corrected in time.This is the first year that a weekly Courier will cover the Christmas period, in order to make sure advertisers get the best from the Courier, we have to have an early deadline as there will only be a skeleton staff covering the Christmas period.