Hour-by-hour… how to beat the dreaded festive hangover – from bedtime to breakfast (plus our favourite ‘cures’)

MANY of us feel a slight pang of existential dread as the festive season approaches.

You’re looking forward to the month of festive cheer, but you’re also slightly concerned for your health (both mentally and physically).

Lots of Christmas parties can mean lots of drinking, which inevitably means lots of hangovers.

A pounding headache, violent sickness and crippling anxiety are just some of the horrible costs faced the morning after the night before.

For decades...