If you don't have an outdoor socket look for solar powered or battery-powered outdoor lights. Illuminate your house safely this Christmas and be careful not to over dazzle the neighbours.

Children adore seeing streets and shop fronts twinkling with pretty lights and festive Christmas ... houses and gardens all dressed up with lights? We've rounded up the best outdoor Xmas lights ...

When Edison patented the light bulb in ... tannenbaum—the Christmas tree—and the idea spread. In the States, President Franklin Pierce put one up at the White House in 1856, and by the 1870s ...