And what did you learn from the last year attempted Christmas Day bombing that helped you better prepare for this?
During last year's Christmas drink-drive campaign more than 150 vehicles were stopped in the first two weeks.
The cover of last year's Christmas issue showing Adam and Eve was censored in five countries.
Somehow though, I suspect that he hasn't forgiven me for putting my Razr- last year's Christmas present - through the washing machine.
Castaldo added that it did not seem that Leon's song would sell as well as last year's Christmas number one by previous X Factor winner, Leona Lewis.
After last year's Christmas exodus by southern shoppers, Irish finance minister Brian Lenihan suggested it was "unpatriotic" of them to shop in Northern Ireland rather than boost the ailing economy in the south.
But suddenly, just before Christmas last year, Tammie's two-year battle paid off.
Lindsay had been out of work for about three months before her brother gave her a Web camera for Christmas last year.
The workers' plight was eased slightly at Christmas last year when local businesses clubbed together to throw a festive party for the sacked staff.
Mr. IFTIKHAR: Over Christmas last year, we had a group of 40 American Muslims returning from a conference in Toronto, and American citizens who were detained at the border for in excess of seven hours, fingerprinted, searched, photographed with threat of arrest for non-compliance.
Extra ambulance staff are on standby this New Year's Eve after paramedics saw numbers of callouts increase during this Christmas compared with last year.
Last year, confirmed after-Christmas sales began going live as early as December 23.
Before the bladder infection, which he initially contracted during events marking the queen's diamond jubilee, he spent four nights in a hospital over the Christmas holiday last year for treatment of a blocked coronary artery.
Well by January of next year, after what HMV hopes will be a traditional Christmas rush rather madder than last year's, it should be clear whether it will swim or sink.
Also expected to return for the Christmas special are last year's runner-up Chelsee Healey and newsreaders Natasha Kaplinsky and Chris Hollins.
Ian Christmas was convicted last year of defrauding an investor and was sentenced to 15 months in prison by Jersey's Royal Court.
Mandela, 94, has undergone treatment for the ailment before, including a Christmas hospital stay last year for gallstones surgery and a lung infection.
Last year, the 10 days before Christmas accounted for 24.4 percent of total GAFO retail sales in the entire holiday shopping season of November and December.
The film was scheduled to open on Christmas Day of last year, but was moved into early May, setting off buzz that the would-be Oscar contender was somewhat of a dud.
The airline successfully won an injunction against the planned Christmas strikes in December last year.
Total food sales were up by 2.3% from October last year, with shoppers stocking up on Christmas goods and buying comfort food such as traditional puddings, custard and slow-cooked meats.
They were popular Christmas presents in California last year.
Yousef's brother-in-law, Said Al Shehri, also released from Gitmo, is currently the second in command of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, the branch that launched the Christmas Day airline attack last year.
The choir gave its first performance last year, but it was a program of Christmas music.
The 17.4 million devices compares to an estimated 6.8 million iOS and Android devices last Christmas, a 156% increase year over year.
The village flooded six times last year, including two floods in two days before Christmas.
In North Yorkshire, the number of people caught drink driving over the Christmas period rose slightly compared to last year.
The marketing group Footfall suggested pre-Christmas sales were down 7% on last year, but recovered to show a strong jump in sales shopping as canny shoppers waited for cut-price offers.
And the fact that it was being sold at around cost price - as Amazon boss Jeff Bezos told us last year - meant that it was the bargain tablet at Christmas.
The reason is there had been a leak to Sky News of a couple of the figures, which showed that - as expected - sales of clothes and general merchandise have been poor in the last three months of the year, which includes the important Christmas period.
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