Most teams in England face up to four fixtures during the 10-day festive period.
Knife-related crime dropped 28% in Scotland over the festive period, according to official figures.
Fashion retailer New Look also reported an increase in sales across the festive period.
Volunteer lifeboat crews on Teesside have expressed their hopes for a quiet festive period.
South East Coast Ambulance Service saw calls rise by 8% during the festive period, compared with 2011.
Relatively mild weather over the festive period has helped boost passenger numbers at airports in the Highlands and Islands.
ScotRail said that it was "delighted" the strike was off and that services would be working normally over the festive period.
People without life-threatening conditions have been urged to use walk-in centres, out-of-hours GP services or NHS Direct over the festive period.
The Valiants had been a fixture in the automatic promotion places before heavy defeats at Gillingham and Rotherham during the festive period.
Many residents spent the festive period in temporary accommodation or with relatives.
The NHS in Northamptonshire is asking people with symptoms of colds, flu and winter sickness not to visit hospitals over the festive period.
Mr Bidve, who was a postgraduate student in micro-electronics, was visiting Greater Manchester with friends over the festive period when he was killed.
There was a rise in the number of motorists arrested for drinking and driving over the festive period in County Durham, figures show.
Mr Payne's wife Marilyn said being without her daughter, who she has always feared is dead, really hits home around the festive period.
The force advised that revellers, particularly over the festive period, should avoid taking the pink tablets and notify police if they were being sold.
The congestion charge for vehicles entering central London does not apply during the festive period and there are no on-street parking charges in Westminster.
Deborah Harris from the International Airport said most of its passengers were returning home for Christmas to spend the festive period with family and friends.
The pub has been forced to cancel its Christmas bookings as the owners are not confident it will reopen in time for the busy festive period.
The missing mail - a fraction of the 50 million items collected, sorted and delivered in Wales over the festive period - was discovered on 15 December.
Despite the jump in sales over the weekend, there are concerns that the rise in spending over the festive period as a whole will be weaker this year.
An additional 20 people are being employed by the Highland Homeless at Christmas Trust to provide supervisory cover for the properties and their residents over the festive period.
"Although there is no tangible proof, I believe that, due to the significant reduction in knife crime for the last festive period, lives will have been saved, " he said.
The pair have scored 22 goals between them for the Alex this season, with Miller scoring in consecutive matches during the festive period to reach double figures for the campaign.
More than a dozen planned rail engineering projects led to disruption, but Network Rail said more trains were running over the Christmas and New Year period than in the festive period last year.
Dyfed-Powys Police said that while they did not face the same problems because they do not have any big cities, there had been "extensive planning" so people can enjoy the festive period safely.
However, Avalanche had a more successful festive period than expected and its owner believes that this was down to HMV and its Fopp subsidiary running out of stock as it faced increasing financial problems.
Officers said the move was timed to coincide with the festive period but is also just weeks after a 32-year-old man was sentenced to 15 months in prison after admitting glassing another man in a Retford pub.
Christmas has also been less than kind to budget clothing retailer Matalan as its shares fell 6% to 195p, before rallying slightly to close at 202p, after it announced sales rose just 1% over the festive period.
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