Christmas Eve: last minute shoppers and celebrations

Christmas Eve: last minute shoppers and celebrations; ENGLAND: London & Birmingham: EXT Group of women along laden with Christmas shopping, laughing as look in shop window / INT Crowd of shoppers in busy off licence shop, queuing up to buy bottles of alcohol / Shots of shop assistant taking bottle from shelf behind counter and ringing up item on cash register, money exchanged / Money entered into till / EXT / NIGHT Christmas trees decorating outside of department store TILT DOWN shoppers along street / Young girl along / Group of young women along / Wide shot Bourne and Hollingsworth (B&H) department store, decorated with Christmas trees / Reggie Bosanquet interviews a group of women who have been in town for some last minute shopping SOF - (general drunken chatter and laughs) Joke about being broke, have big Christmas box but could do with a rise, one woman asks if it is BBC or ITA, one woman says Christmas is dying out now etc (they walk away) / T/X 24.12.57 / 10.45pm / Remains of 6.30 story - on end of above: Manchester: LV Tree ZOOM IN to sign 'Merry Xmas' flashing / London: INT Pan over empty glasses in pub / Lynne Reid Banks interviews city man SOF - He wouldn't like City to be always like this - no work would be done - works in Lloyds where they celebrate a bit in a reserved way - will have party tonight at home / Man and girl interviewed SOF - He's a long way from home - from New Zealand, main attraction of London is lights and grog - met girl with him in this pub, she says likes colonials around - City an unimportant place apart from them / T/X 24.12.57 / 6.30pm