If you're feeling really awful, there are helplines, where you can get independent advice.

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Stone Age man did not have the 'threat' of programmable video recorders, horrible bosses or 'customer service' helplines.

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There are free helplines and websites standing by to help answer your questions.

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Victims of Jimmy Savile's abuse at Leeds General Infirmary, Stoke Mandeville and Broadmoor hospitals are being asked to contact new helplines.

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But it warns that both helplines are unable to answer every call that comes in because of a lack of trained staff.

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Because of the strain of Christmas, many organisations set up special helplines.

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The bigger firms, with established distribution networks, helplines and so on, can often extract more money from the market than the emerging firm could do on its own.

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