Christmas in the credit crunch may add to family tensions, and another survey, published on Wednesday, found relationship counselling had risen as the downturn has started to bite.
The plan for Nottingham is that from 2013, children would return to school in late August after a month-long break and then have a two-week break in the autumn, at Christmas, in spring and in late May.
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The presents were not wrapped and may have been taken in Christmas sacks.
Ira Epstein, director of the Ira Epstein division of The Linn Group, cited quantitative easing and early expectations for improvement in Christmas-related sales as factors that may help commodities.
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Although it may not rank with Thanksgiving or Christmas in holiday status, Halloween is big business for certain industries, including the candy and costume businesses.
Although Thanksgiving and Christmas may show up at retailers earlier each year, it seems Halloween may have to fool Mother Nature in order to bump up its roll-out schedule.
That spanking new table saw or nail gun under the Christmas tree may deliver quite the thrill to the handyman in your house.
But a narrowly averted strike over pay by airline staff in the run-up to Christmas delayed, and may block, the switch.
Marketing requirements in Australia and South Africa may demand five Tests over Christmas and New Year.
The change may come in February or perhaps as early as Christmas.
There was a slight rise in cases of flu over Christmas, however, the real number may be higher as many doctor's surgeries closed on bank holidays.
On a day when thousands of people around the world are preparing to explain how a web cam works to elderly relatives in a vain attempt to wish them a merry Christmas, some may just go straight to the old-fashioned use of a telephone.
Developer Pigeon hopes to start work on the site in May and said a Tesco Express could be open by Christmas.
Residents in an East Yorkshire village who were flooded during Christmas have been told it may take weeks before waters subside.
Newspaper reports suggested that Mr Clegg and Business Secretary Vince Cable may be preparing to abstain in the vote - due before Christmas - in order to hold the parliamentary party together.
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The problem in the short term is that the European autumn consumer slowdown may herald a chilly Christmas season.
Some banks, however, have warned they will deal in euros only from January, so you may want to get rid of your money before Christmas.
It may be July, but Black Friday starts now as retailers roll out Black Friday sales and Christmas in July events.
The book was published in September, so this may not strike you as the most prompt of reviews, although if I yoke in a Christmas association it should become more timely.
Assuming that the bilateral elements in the plan are finalised, it may yet be agreed upon at an IMF board meeting shortly before Christmas.
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