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There have been reports that up to 30 universities could face closure as a result of a series of cuts announced before Christmas.
BBC: 'Bleak future' for universities
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The news that US video game sales collapsed by 21% in December only complements a series of remarkable snapshots of how rapidly US consumer behavior changed this past Christmas.
FORBES: US Consumers Shun Games, Movies - Mobile Apps Triumphant
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It was only in July and December that print sales were up compared with 2011, in part due to the success of James' erotic series and the Christmas trade.
BBC: Sales of printed books slump in 2012
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He added that Royal Mail would receive notice next week of the first in a series of strikes in the run-up to Christmas.
BBC: Bristol postal worker strikes 'inevitable'
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In the days when nobody had ever heard of a snowboard, he spotted one at a general store, requested and received it for Christmas, and began a series of family trips involving backcountry camping.
WSJ: Snowboarder Jeremy Jones's Secret Code of Snow | Creating
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Union representatives have announced the first in a series of planned strikes by postal workers in south Bristol ahead of Christmas.
BBC: Bristol union announces first Christmas postal strike
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Meanwhile, Ben Schott's Miscellany series, which started out as a way of enlivening the author's Christmas cards, became a trivia phenomenon to rival the Guinness Book Of Records.
BBC: News - The noughties in literature
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Her later series for the BBC have included One is Fun in 1991, Delia's How to Cook, which ran for three series between 1998 and 2002, and Delia's Classic Christmas, which gained an audience of nearly four million in December 2009, and marked her first Christmas programme for nearly 20 years.
BBC: Delia Smith
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More than 1, 000 ex-servicemen say their lives were destroyed after the UK carried out a series of nuclear weapons tests in mainland Australia, the Montebello islands off the west Australian coast and on Christmas Island, in the Pacific, between 1952 and 1958.
BBC: Veterans' long battle for nuclear tests' compensation