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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When it comes to spending the holiday season abroad, many foreigners are excited to participate in the customs of their host country.
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Carol services banned, religious references carefully excised from cards: to read Britain's press this year, you could be forgiven for thinking the politically correct brigade are set on taking the Christian out of Christmas.
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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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On midnight Wednesday, the country, which uses a modified Julian calendar, will kick off festivities.
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People who are going on holiday over the Bank Holiday weekend are being warned about potential delays to their journeys.
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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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Work? Stuff that A poll of 2,500 Brit workers has confirmed what most of us already knew: the Xmas holiday starts tonight at 5pm as a third of the UK's workforce will "mentally switch off" in advance of next week's pre-Yule skive.â¦
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Britain's cities are preparing to mark the New Year with firework displays, concerts and sports events, but the celebrations will be overshadowed by the Asian tsunami disaster.
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With âMr. Beanâs Holiday,â the British comedian Rowan Atkinson continues a tradition that in the right hands never gets stale: comic pantomime.
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It used to be that many Americans would deplore the commercialization of the Christmas holidays (or, originally, âholy daysâ).
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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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London's police are putting a new jingle into Christmas.
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Pronouncements by politicians and religious leaders are again spotlighting the cultural divide between the Muslim community and the rest of British society. This time, the issue is people who marry their cousins.
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Bookmakers have slashed the odds on the possibility of a White Christmas for several parts of the UK.
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It is hard not to imagine trying to customize someone elseÂs holiday dinner so it works a little better with what is in your head.
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Across Britain, bonfires were being built and fireworks lit to mark an event 399 years old with which some people still sympathise, even if they disagree with the method -- a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament.