Do they know it’s not Christmas?

AS HUNDREDS of thousands of Scots head for holidays in the sun, Christmas will be the last thing on their minds.

So many will have been left bemused by the sight of a snowman and Santa at Glasgow Airport’s Holiday Inn.

The festive display stunned Scots singer-songwriter Midge Ure, pictured, who famously cowrote the 1984 Band Aid hit Do They Know It’s Christmas? with Sir Bob Geldof.

The Cambuslang-born star, 64, who played at the Rewind Festival at Scone Palace, in Perthshire, over the weekend along with Sir Bob, posted on Twitter: ‘Holiday Inn Glasgow Airport tonight… you have to be joking ???? ’

The hotel chain yesterday defended its decision to have early Christmas displays, saying they gave customers advance notice for seasonal bookings. Holiday Inn Glasgow later tweeted the singer back saying: ‘We would have loved you to have given us a song, Midge.’

The star replied: ‘Only if you had put that display away for another four months.’