Launching its annual A Dog is for Life, Not Just for Christmas campaign, the NCDL said its rehoming centres were already running out of places.
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.
The country's biggest left-wing rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), has not declared any truce for Christmas so far and correspondents say it is unlikely to do so.
Welp not getting my car for Christmas, freaking sucks!!!!!!
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Turns out, it was not an especially merry Christmas for Coinstar (CSTR).
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The player is not registered for Saracens' pre-Christmas Heineken Cup games against French side Racing Metro.
His family were not expecting him home in time for Christmas Day.
Why not buy your child a book for Christmas or birthday?
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The Pogues' Fairytale Of New York was a re-entry at 26, with Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You not far behind, at 30.
Around eight in 10 did not know the last posting dates for Christmas, including the final day for standard packages of 14 December, and the deadlines for sending overseas of between 5 December and 12 December.
He then stuck around Washington not for priorities of defending U.S. security, but for the Christmas Eve passage of the Senate's monstrous health care bill.
The airline argued that Unite had not polled its members correctly: some votes were recorded from people no longer employed by BA, and the call for industrial action did not specify the intention to strike for 12 consecutive days precisely at Christmas.
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In recent days, some have called for Muslims not to greet Christians at Christmas.
Christmas did not come early for Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH).
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Lets say you are buying a TV for Christmas now but do not plan on taking delivery of it till right before the 25th.
Not great for astronomy, but perfectly rational on Christmas Eve.
However the Barbican are not forgetting that Christmas isn't just for children and if you're after some riveting, visually compelling and side splitting entertainment come and see Last Xmas brought to you by home-grown theatre company DumbWise.
"The Welsh Assembly Government is extremely concerned about the homelessness situation in Wales and we are looking into providing extra help for local authorities to help them deal with what is, sadly, a problem for far too many people - not just at Christmas, but throughout the year, " she said.
While the United States calendar for Christmas shopping is favorable, since there are extra selling days before Christmas, this is not the case in Germany.
Residents in Shipston-on-Stour and Kenilworth told BBC News they had not had any mail delivered for a week ahead of the Christmas holidays starting.
Was this not the footballing equivalent of buying an extremely expensive gadget for Christmas, only to unwrap it and find that it won't work without four additional batteries (not supplied)?
The ward had been closed for financial reasons since before Christmas but will now not reopen.
He said food banks were meeting parents who were worried about putting food on the table this Christmas, and who could not afford any presents for their children.
It's going to be a blue Christmas for Democrats in Congress--but not for some 20 million taxpayers who narrowly escaped being ensnared by the alternative minimum tax (AMT) this year.
The figures used on the maps are not seasonally adjusted, so, for example, people taking on Christmas jobs will be reflected in a drop in the claimant count at the beginning of the year.
"I'm not looking forward to any particular Christmas present, I am just hoping for lots of surprises, " she said.
Indeed, but for Father Christmas, no presents would appear beside shoes (not inside stockings) set out under the tree.
It ends on Christmas day with lunch and a party for families who do not have the money for turkey and trimmings.
It looks like it is going to be a great Christmas fro Apple, and a not-so-good one for Microsoft and its hardware partners.
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