• Last Xmas runs from 15-17, 22 and 24 December at 8pm with an after-show Christmas party in the bar on Christmas Eve.

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  • But the dismal December that culminated in a 93-76 Christmas Day loss to the visiting Boston Celtics nearly put that in jeopardy.

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  • Although the main series has now ended, Strictly will return for a pre-recorded Christmas special on 25 December.

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  • Issued with no fanfare on December 17th in the run-up to the Christmas holidays, this document amends an earlier order promulgated by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.

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  • "I think people at the top sometimes forget that they stand on the shoulders of others, the people at the bottom - the administrative workers, the electricians, the cleaners - without whom there would be no profits for those companies, " he told MPs during a wide-ranging Christmas recess debate on 20 December 2011.

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  • It was re-opened in December 2007, just in time for the Christmas panto.

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  • Last year, confirmed after-Christmas sales began going live as early as December 23.

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  • On December 27, we got a belated but incredible Christmas present -- Mom's doctors had found 12 potential bone marrow matches!

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  • Figures on Friday showed that retail sales rose 0.6% in December after heavy discounting in shops in the run-up to Christmas.

    BBC: One third of UK adults 'plan to spend less this year'

  • There are some signs that the first Motorola phone using it might hit the market around December-January period, though probably missing the bulk of the Christmas season.

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  • We round off the visit tasting a couple of barrel-aged beers, the 2008 edition of 25 Dodici (25th December, their Christmas beer) and two barrels of Sedici Gradi (Sixteen Degrees, their strong, dark barley wine).

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  • Despite a flurry of last-minute shoppers lured by the deep discounts, total retail sales, excluding automobiles, fell over the year-earlier period by 5.5% in November and 8% in December through Christmas Eve, according to MasterCard Inc.

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  • Mr Quinn's family, along with his solicitors and parish priest, had written to the prison governor to ask that he be released for a week from Saturday until December 27, not just for Christmas but also to attend the christening of his grand-daughter.

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  • Michael Ware, 37, accidently got into the arcade cabinet-building business when he designed an emulator-based machine for his wife, 35, as a Christmas present back in December 2002.

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  • Stephen Hess, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Governance Studies at the The Brookings Institution, suggested in 2001 that as a rule of thumb an incoming president need have their White House appointments -- their immediate inner circle -- in place by Thanksgiving (November 27) and Cabinet staff by Christmas (December 25).

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  • Any who doubt Christmas is feminine need only take a survey of any holiday-season mall during December weeks when gentlemen are entranced by Sunday, Monday and Thursday night football.

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  • Coleman played a surprise role in last September's season premiere -- as Oswin, a different character from Clara, but one connected to her -- and takes on full companion duties in "The Snowmen" Christmas episode, airing December 25 at 9 p.m.

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  • Indeed, the seasonally-adjusted growth in spending slowed noticeably in the run-up to Christmas, from 0.6% in November to 0.2% in December.

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  • We wouldn't be -- we wouldn't be sitting here, the 14th of December, when you'd much rather be Christmas shopping, discussing the Senate being in on the weekends if the President wasn't involved.

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  • But he figures that sale-driven bonanza will be followed by a shopping lull that will last until December 17, the final Saturday before Christmas weekend (Christmas falls on a Sunday this year, making it likely that the final big Saturday push will come the previous week).

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