The Ottawa Citizen reports that Santa will not be responding to children's letters for a while, due to a problem with the elves - well one elf in particular.

It seems that a rogue elf, one of a band of 11,000 elves, has been writing obscene letters to children on Santa's behalf and. because of this, Santa's Canadian representative has had to shut the service down.

There's always one, isn't there.

Reuters