Total sales from 1 November to Christmas Eve rose 3.9% from a year earlier, with online sales up 11.2%.
In North Yorkshire, the number of people caught drink driving over the Christmas period rose slightly compared to last year.
Christmas churchgoing rose by 14% and the number of baptisms also rose.
In a statement on the plans released before the Commons rose for the Christmas recess, the Treasury fleshed out the plan a little.
Warren's sixteen-year-old daughter, Kate, came in, and I asked her if she wanted to see the studio portraits I had taken of Rose for my Christmas cards.
But after stripping out seasonal factors like Christmas hiring, employment actually rose by 116, 000, a tad above the 113, 000 new jobs in November and way above the 78, 000 registered in October.
The data tallies with figures from research firm Experian that suggested the number of visits to retail websites rose 86% on Christmas Eve, 71% on Christmas Day and 17% on Boxing Day compared with a year earlier, as many chains began their online sales before Christmas.
It said that total sales in its shops and via home shopping rose 15% between August and Christmas compared with the same period in 1998.
The nearby River Severn peaked at 5.2m (17ft) on Christmas Day with much of the village affected, including the Rose and Crown pub.
In 2011, ITV's Downton Abbey came fourth according to overnight figures, but eventually it rose to first because of nearly 3 million extra viewers watching after Christmas Day.
In Leeds, Dean Stratton, manager of the White Rose Shopping Centre, told the BBC they were experiencing a very busy Christmas and Boxing Day.
Over Christmas the group's total like-for-like sales, including overseas, rose by 5%.
Figures on Friday showed that retail sales rose 0.6% in December after heavy discounting in shops in the run-up to Christmas.
"Evita, " which opens Christmas Day, is a screen opera about the life of Eva Peron, the daughter of a poor farmer who rose to power as the first lady of Argentina's President Juan Peron in the 1940s.
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