QUIRKY WORLD ... The heat is on as Santa Claus comes to town

ENGLAND: Selfridges has opened its Christmas store — with the temperature outside at 19C and 145 shopping days left to buy all the festive essentials.

Christmas has come almost five months early to the London retailer where the fourth floor has been decked out with 50,000 decorations.

Selfridges said it was the first department store in the world to launch its Christmas shop this year — and even Santa Claus was in town for the opening.