IF YOU are writing your annual card or letter to far-flung friends and relatives this Christmas, remind them that they can keep in touch with all the doings and comings and goings in Merkinch on our website. Tap into www.merkinch.org.uk/newsletter and you’ll be able to access Merkinch News & Views all the way back to 1998!

You’ll not get the sponsors’ messages or the quizzes, competitions and crosswords - just the news and features, not to mention pictures. So remember to pass the word around. The web version usually hits the internet a few days after local delivery, that is to say around the end of the first week of the month.