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Retailers rejoiced thanks to bumper Boxing Day sales, with one major department store recording their highest figures ever.
Selfridges witnessed its best Boxing Day yet with a 10 per cent increase on last year, and by 1pm, the menswear department in the London store had taken over £1 million.
The Oxford Street branch had been expected to [...]
11th Dec 09
Britons to drink 265 pints for Christmas
by Harry Oldfield
According to research, Christmas partygoers will drink the equivalent of 265 million pints, 602 million shots of vodka or 286 million glasses of mulled wine.
The festive season will see Britons drink over 600 million units of alcohol according to research undertaken by alcohol awareness charity Drinkaware.
The research shows that one in seven adults will drink [...]
9th Dec 09
UK Drink driving laws under review
by Harry Oldfield
New moves by the Government could see a possible reduction of the legal drink-drive limit, with Transport Secretary Lord Adonis asking legal expert Sir Peter North to advise on the case for changes to the limit and stricter laws.
The present legal-drink drive limit is 80mg of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, however there has [...]
30th Nov 09
Tent hospital for drunks opens early
by Sally Davies
Paramedics have opened their Christmas field hospital to deal with the increasing number of binge-drinkers.
The hospital, run by the London Ambulance Service inside a heated marquee inside Liverpool Street Station, opened on Friday night, a week earlier than last year.
This year will also be the first time that the makeshift hospital will be on Christmas [...]
30th Oct 09
Christmas best-sellers set to be credit crunch toys
by Natasha Redman
The best selling toys this Christmas has almost halved as parents reduce spending on hi-tech gadgets and opt to purchase traditional, simple games for their children.
Toys expected to be Christmas best-sellers this year are mostly under £40 and include Lego, Monopoly, pump-action Nef guns, racing cars, Sylvanian Families and talking, moving, fluffy hamsters, according to [...]
21st Oct 09
Over 100,000 apply for Royal Mail temp job
by Harry Oldfield
About 100,000 people are expected to apply for temporary positions as postal works in light of the planned mail strike.
Royal Mail has been inundated with job applications following attempts to recruit 30,000 temp staff to deal with the backlog of stoppages on Thursday and Friday.
The positions pay about £5.95 an hour for a 40 hour [...]
12th Oct 09
Christmas decorations up in mall
by Katie Naylor
Christmas decorations have appeared at one of the country’s largest shopping malls – two-and-a-half months early.
The 100ft-tall Christmas decorations are already in place in the atrium at the John Lewis department store at Cribbs Causeway, in Bristol.
Over the next month rope access supervisor Rob Tucker and a team of eight will be travelling around 27 [...]
24th Sep 09
50 percent of people already shopping for Christmas
by Adam Richards
Half of us are Christmas shopping already.
Although summer has just ended, a recent survey has revealed that half of shoppers have already begun buying presents.
The survey also revealed the early start to the shopping was an attempt to spread the costs of the festive season.
Almost a third of shoppers were planning to spend considerably less [...]
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