NEWS JUST IN: Santa to visit Sunderland before the big day!

As you can probably imagine, organising Christmas means the Sunderland Live team have been pretty busy lately! So when our email inbox pinged with an urgent message from the boss, we all dashed to the computer to take a look.

Turns out he's going to be paying Sunderland a visit in advance of the big day and dropping in to say hello to his friend from the North Pole, Bjorn the Bear! Since Santa is good friends with Bjorn, he's going to make sure every child who goes to the Bjorn the Bear Experience also visits him in his grotto! And everyone who visits him will get a present that he's even going to let them have before Christmas Day!

He'll be parking his reindeer up in Mowbray Park during his stay so once you've visited the Bjorn the Bear Experience, you can go make sure Dasher and Prancer know where your house is ready for the big day.

Click here to find out more about meeting Santa and Bjorn at the Bjorn the Bear Experience.

We know, we know, it's pretty hard to believe he's going to be here before Christmas Eve, so we uploaded the eveidence... see for yourself by clicking here!