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With Christmas cheer all around we have compiled a list of articles and galleries showcasing the festive cheer around the Central West. 

BATHURST

More opting to dine out for Christmas lunch: WITH 50 kilograms of ham and 1200 Sydney rock oysters, it’s likely Rydges Mount Panorama will host Bathurst’s biggest Christmas lunch this year.

GALLERY: Put Christmas in Your Street: Congratulations to the finalists for the 2012 Put Christmas in Your Street competition.

Miracles do happen: At a time of year when people are lonely or struggling to make ends meet, for a few moments yesterday there was also joy as volunteers with the Christmas Miracle Appeal delivered hampers to 1100 grateful people.

GALLERY: Carols By Candlelight: Photos from Carols by Candlelight in Machattie Park, Bathurst.

Forget the sleigh, Santa’s got a sulky: IT has been looking a lot like Christmas on the streets of Eglinton and Abercrombie in the past few weeks – and not just because of the outstanding Christmas lights displays!

ORANGE

GALLERY: Christmas Eve Eve: @ The Hotel Canobolas

Thanks to The Smith Family Chloe comes to life: IMAGINE turning up to school with a hand-me-down ill-fitting uniform and sadly watching as your friends went on an excursion your family could not afford to send you on. This was the daily reality for Chloe as she struggled to fit in with her peers at school.

Carols By Candlelight 2012: Gallery. 

Christmas Light Competition 2012: An amazing gallery of Christmas lights around Orange - including the addresses so you can head out and have a look too!

Keeping the faith at Christmas: AN Orange church leader has said despite the commercialism of Christmas it helps to draw people back to their faith. St Mary’s and St Joseph’s priest Father Paul Devitt said Christmas is about love and God is love.

DUBBO

The gift that keeps on giving: SHOPPERS at Dubbo Centro have made good use of a gift-wrapping service that is helping to raise money for a worthy cause.

Carols by Candlelight: Hosted by the Rotary Club of Dubbo West, residents of Dubbo celebrated Carols by Candlelight at No1 Oval Victoria Park. 

You have to be in it to win it: Those are the words of Daily Liberal competition winner Helen Walsh who won two great Christmas presents.

GALLERY: O.M.G WHAT A TREE: The winners of O.M.G. What a tree! family home and business categories will receive a mystery gift each as a prize.

Betty takes home West Rotary Club raffle in time for Christmas: IT was the biggest prize Betty Burt had won in her life and it came just in time for Christmas. Mrs Burt bought two Dubbo West Rotary Club Christmas raffle tickets and did not think she would win.

GALLERY: Christmas lights in Dubbo: It's time to deck the halls and add to the Christmas cheer in your neighbourhood.