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Advent Calendar 2017

TO celebrate the most wonderful time of the year, First News is running an online advent calendar on First News Live! until Christmas Day.

We’ve got 25 festive treats wrapped up in the form of fun videos, celebrity shout-outs, Christmassy galleries (prepare for a parade of pups in Santa hats) and other surprises, ready and waiting for you! All you have to do is open the new “door” each day.

And behind DOOR NUMBER TWENTY…

It’s a Christmas present from our friends at Chester Zoo – a video revealing their top ten baby animals of 2017!

Keepers, conservationists and scientists at Chester Zoo have celebrated a vast array of births in 2017 – including some of the rarest animals on the planet.

From the first Andean bear to ever be born in mainland Britain to the inaugural hatching of a Bermuda skink (a type of lizard) anywhere in the world outside of Bermuda, wildlife experts at the zoo have attributed the baby boom of rare animals to good planning, world-class facilities and highly-skilled staff.