For many years, the much-anticipated Next Boxing Day sale saw long queues outside the nation's stores from the early hours on December 26. 

But since 2021, the fashion and homeware chain has kept its shops shut on Boxing Day as well as Christmas Day to give its staff a well-earned break.

This is the case again in 2023 and those wishing to bag an early bargain can shop online from Sunday, December 24. 

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A spokesperson for Next confirmed that the online sale starts on Christmas Eve and the in-store sale begins on Wednesday, December 27 at 6am.

All UK Next stores will be closed on December 25 and 26, which falls on a Monday and Tuesday this year, and there are four branches in Suffolk. 

They are located at Beardmore Park in Martlesham Heath, at Charter Square in Bury St Edmunds and at North Quay Retail Park in Lowestoft.

There is also a Next Outlet at the Suffolk Retail Park in Ipswich.