Campaigners target bag-free Christmas
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Life & style: New drive to encourage shoppers and retailers to support first ever national plastic bag-free Christmas is gaining momentum.
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The Salvation Army started its annual holiday fund-raising campaign Tuesday with a $85,000 hole in the kettle. That&#39;s how much the charity estimates it collected in kettles in front of Target stores last year.
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Move over, Tupperware. A new wave of parties is about waste-free lunches and energy-efficient laundry.
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London's police are putting a new jingle into Christmas.
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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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This is the season for giving, and merchants and children alike encourage it.
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Hundreds of people have been helped in a temporary Christmas shelter, the charity Crisis says.
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Gifts to The Salvation Army&#39;s Red Kettle holiday fund-raising campaign made at more than 3,600 Wal-Mart Stores and Supercenters across the country will be matched through Christmas Eve.
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The charity says without them, many needy families just wouldn&#39;t have a merry Christmas. &quot;Bell ringers who give from themselves, they give up their time to man a kettle, to greet people, to say Happy Holidays, to bring a smile.
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There&#39;s a reason that smiling Salvation Army bell-ringer looks a little stiff this Christmas season, and it&#39;s not the cold weather.
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What does it take to lure harried Christmas shoppers away from the malls and the prepackaged convenience of an already decorated plastic Christmas tree in a box?
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Description: Target made news by banning people asking for money, including those holiday bell ringers who collect donations for the Salvation Army.
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High Street retailers launch a series of sales and special offers to lure stay-at-home consumers into some early Christmas shopping.
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Parents release video message addressed to their daughter as they face Christmas without her
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The key to a holiday season without added pounds could be planning ahead to avoid the holiday temptations.
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Christmas drinking could have led to unprotected sex and a record number of abortions last month, says a charity.
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Husbands fed up with their wives&#39; Christmas shopping frenzies will be able to watch football in creches set up specially for men, Marks and Spencer has announced.