50,000 dead - and toll still rising

Well it has been quite a strange and sad boxing day after the news of a epic tidal wave rocking 11 countries.

Medical supplies, food aid and water purification systems poured into the region, part of what the UN said would be the biggest relief effort the world has ever seen.

Rescuers struggled to reach remote locations where thousands more were likely killed by the deadliest tsunami in 120 years. Bodies, many of them children, filled beaches and choked hospital morgues, raising fears of disease across the region.

Anyway I have spent the day out with friends celebrating Christmas in Hornsea and I have seen some people I have not seen for a year or more, however the sad news of the natural disaster put a sad spin on the whole holiday period!