In Britain, A Respected, If Rowdy, Holiday Ritual
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LONDON -- Just before midnight, the well-dressed, 25-year-old financial trader arrived by ambulance at the makeshift hospital tent pitched at a train station in central London. Blood oozed from his scalp, staining his elegant pink-striped shirt.
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Bereaved family members and survivors will be at the service A service remembering Britons killed or injured in terrorist attacks abroad last year is to be held in London.
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The BBC News website look at the variety of European traditions at Christmas and New Year.
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Millions of Britons have a guilty secret. They are spending their spare hours immersed in an underground world of LA gangs and gun-ridden ghettos.
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Online shops look set to have a good Christmas as UK web-users get the online buying habit.
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A national day to celebrate British values, possibly as a new bank holiday, is proposed by two senior ministers.
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Comment is free: Richard Coles: Whether poor in Lincolnshire or rich in London, the true message of Christmas still rings out
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Now this was a Holiday Bowl to remember.
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Food, friends, and elf figurines add up. Here's some advice on how to handle the holiday tab.
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LONDON - British workers have been told: Have a merry Christmas - but skip the mistletoe, don't dance on the desks and definitely don't perch bare-bottomed on the photocopier.
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Rail passengers are facing longer journeys on New Year's Eve on one of the UK's busiest routes.
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Religious, secular, inclusive, traditional: It's turning out to be an intense year in the debate over how to celebrate.
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Britons nervously waiting to tie the knot are increasingly heading to the capitals of eastern Europe for alcohol-fuelled final flings with their best friends, otherwise known as stag or hen weekends.
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A charity is asking British tourists to think carefully before bringing animal souvenirs back from holiday.
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Mistletoe has a legendary reputation for romance, but it is also widely considered as lethal as it is festive.
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The RAC predicts that Friday will be the busiest time on Britain's roads over the festive period.
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A candlelit service is to be held for family and friends of the murdered prostitutes in Suffolk.