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How to dispose of your unwanted Christmas gifts

Many people are already wondering what to do with unwanted Christmas gifts.

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Alexander McCall Smith on the etiquette of 'regifting'

It is the perennial Christmas dilemma: how to deal with unwanted presents?

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Sort us out? You and whose army?

SkillForce puts youngsters from a range of difficult backgrounds into the care of former servicemen. But does it work? Jim White reports.

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Christmas gadgets to add £150 to energy bills

The gadgets among this year's Christmas presents are likely to cost the average family as much as £150 a year in added energy costs, researchers at Salford University said yesterday.

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Obamas make Christmas visit to US troops in Hawaii

President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama bring some Christmas cheer to US troops and their families during a visit to a military base in Hawaii

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Shoppers on Oxford Street queue in the dark for Boxing Day sales

Thousands of shoppers camped out in Oxford Street in order to be among the first to grab a bargain as shops opened their doors for the Boxing Day sales

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Man killed during London Boxing Day sales stampede

Several arrests have been made after a man was killed as tens of thousands of people thronged to London's Bond Street for the sales.

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The Borrowers, BBC One, review

Anne Billson reviews the BBC's adaptation of Mary Norton's classic tale starring Victoria Wood.

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Shoppers to make Tuesday 27th busiest of the year

High streets and shopping centres will enjoy the biggest shopping day of the year on Tuesday as more than 10?million people take advantage of the extra bank holiday.

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White strawberries and purple potatoes trends for next year's gardeners

They are the traditional taste of an English summer, but next year you could enjoy your strawberries with a hint of the tropics.

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Downton Abbey servants are far too clean, says historian

The cosy image of life at Downton Abbey is completely wrong and ''infuriating to watch'', according to an expert on the period.

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Great Expectations, BBC One, review

The jewel in the crown of the BBC's celebrations of Charles Dickens's upcoming bicentenary.

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Let our quiz put a fizz into the festival

What would the season be without a first-class Telegraph quiz? Over to our question master, Christopher Winn.

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Captain Scott's team ate curried horsemeat for Christmas

A diary kept by Captain Scott on his doomed polar exhibition reveals how his explorers tucked into a Christmas feast of curried horsemeat and plum pudding.

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The worst part of Christmas is all that blasted paperwork

Notebook: for Rowan Pelling, Christmas isn't a time of giving - it's a time of wrapping.

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Clergymen fight with brooms at Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

Palestinian police break up fight at the Church of Nativity in Jesus' birthplace after scuffles erupt between Armenian and Greek Orthodox clergymen.

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Mystery surrounds 'real-life Santa who gave away £50 notes'

A real-life Father Christmas has left shoppers in a Devon village bewildered after he secretly handed out £50 notes in a local supermarket.

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Mystery of 'real-life Santa' who gave away £50 notes

A real-life Father Christmas has left shoppers in a Devon village bewildered after he secretly handed out £50 notes in a local supermarket.

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I'm not Alpha woman enough for the sales frenzy

Those shoppers out defibrillating the economy are brave - I tend to get trampled in the scrum, says Judith Woods.

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Dancing into 2012

Telegraph View: Just as Dickens wrote, tripping the light fantastic may spice up your New Year's celebrations.

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Christmas drink review: Alcohol-free options

Fancy an alcohol-free day/week/month? Susy Atkins has just the thing.

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Festive spenders already 'skint'

Half of workers have already spent last month's pay cheque.

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It's Twelfth Night, and you can't see the 'hood for the trees

Christmas is an infectious fantasy of family life, writes Jemima Lewis.

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I've had my fill of the Olympics circus

Robin Page disapproves of 'The Greed Olympics'.

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Scrooge: My favourite Charles Dickens character

Scrooge, from A Christmas Carol, is one of the best known of all literary creations and is the seventh in the Telegraph pick of the best Charles Dickens characters.

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