How to dispose of your unwanted Christmas gifts
Many people are already wondering what to do with unwanted Christmas gifts.
View ArticleAlexander McCall Smith on the etiquette of 'regifting'
It is the perennial Christmas dilemma: how to deal with unwanted presents?
View ArticleSort 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.
View ArticleChristmas 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.
View ArticleObamas 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
View ArticleShoppers 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
View ArticleMan 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.
View ArticleThe Borrowers, BBC One, review
Anne Billson reviews the BBC's adaptation of Mary Norton's classic tale starring Victoria Wood.
View ArticleShoppers 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.
View ArticleWhite 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.
View ArticleDownton 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.
View ArticleGreat Expectations, BBC One, review
The jewel in the crown of the BBC's celebrations of Charles Dickens's upcoming bicentenary.
View ArticleLet 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.
View ArticleCaptain 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.
View ArticleThe 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.
View ArticleClergymen 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.
View ArticleMystery 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.
View ArticleMystery 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.
View ArticleI'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.
View ArticleDancing into 2012
Telegraph View: Just as Dickens wrote, tripping the light fantastic may spice up your New Year's celebrations.
View ArticleChristmas drink review: Alcohol-free options
Fancy an alcohol-free day/week/month? Susy Atkins has just the thing.
View ArticleFestive spenders already 'skint'
Half of workers have already spent last month's pay cheque.
View ArticleIt's Twelfth Night, and you can't see the 'hood for the trees
Christmas is an infectious fantasy of family life, writes Jemima Lewis.
View ArticleI've had my fill of the Olympics circus
Robin Page disapproves of 'The Greed Olympics'.
View ArticleScrooge: 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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