Prevention is key

Pay respect to smoke and CO alarms, says Kya deLongchamp — it only takes three minutes to die from smoke inhalation.

Throughout the country this Christmas an army of small plastic boxes will suffer verbal attacks that would make a docker run home to mammy.

Beaten with sweeping brushes in lusty target practice and left bravely bleating for attention for weeks, our heroic star is maligned for its putty white boxiness and overlooked for its vital 24/7 starring role.