The PlayStation, despite successfully warding off the N64 last Christmas, is definitely starting to show its age.
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.
"A 40ft container of products fell from the deck in a storm in the Bay of Biscay bound for the Spanish Christmas market last month, " she told the BBC News website.
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Camera chain Jessops has gone under, music and DVD group HMV has closed 66 stores, while electrical chain Comet closed its doors for the last time before Christmas.
That's exactly what Ann and Tom Kent did when they took their kids and grandkids to the Galapagos Islands last Christmas to celebrate their 50th anniversary, a trip arranged by Thomson Family Adventures.
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Many High Street retailers had reported a last-minute surge in shoppers the last weekend before Christmas, and bumper Boxing Day sales, following what had otherwise been a fairly quiet run-up to Christmas, not helped by the rain.
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.
But the publication of the paper in the scientific journal Lutra just before last Christmas seems to have been the catalyst that the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA) needed to come out against the cull.
Police said they prevented the bombing in a train station in Madrid last Christmas Eve, arresting the alleged plotters and seizing those who were planning to carry out the attack hours before it was to have taken place, Acebes said.
City insist those injuries were due to a glut of games over the Christmas period last season.
It's the last debating day before Christmas for their lordships (from 11am).
But AMs were up against a deadline of Wednesday evening, when the last full meeting of the assembly took place before Christmas.
The last thing the government wants now is a white Christmas.
At the Bank of England's Christmas drinks party last night, the reaction of senior officials and economists from inside and outside the Bank was almost universally scathing.
The film had been due for release last Christmas but was pushed back by Warner Bros to ensure it "reaches the largest audience possible".
Lee Westwood, who moved his family down the road from PGA National over the Christmas break, rallied over the last five holes by chipping in for birdie, making an 18-foot birdie putt on the 17th and salvaging par after hitting into the water on the par-5 18th.
Last Christmas was the worst for ten years, and the gloom shows little sign of lifting.
Also expected to return for the Christmas special are last year's runner-up Chelsee Healey and newsreaders Natasha Kaplinsky and Chris Hollins.
Marshals will be on duty on Friday and Saturday nights from 2230 to 0400 GMT during December, and on the last two Thursday evenings before Christmas.
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As I wrote last week, the Christmas trading reports so far show it's online that's kept successful retailers' numbers rising, while those without an adequate strategy for online sales are struggling.
It is a phenomenon said to be part of the demise last year of Jessops and Comet, and a survey by agency Foolproof found that 24% of us admitted to doing it in the run-up to last Christmas.
In North Yorkshire, the number of people caught drink driving over the Christmas period rose slightly compared to last year.
David Kahn may have known more of the guests at a Park Avenue Christmas party I attended last month than anybody except the hosts.
He says the last time he spoke to her was in the hospital on Christmas.
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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.
And the employer's organisation, the CBI, said last week that sales in the run-up to Christmas had been slower than a year ago, for the first time in 10 years.
The workers' plight was eased slightly at Christmas last year when local businesses clubbed together to throw a festive party for the sacked staff.
The airline successfully won an injunction against the planned Christmas strikes in December last year.
The cover of last year's Christmas issue showing Adam and Eve was censored in five countries.
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