by Adrian | Nov 19, 2021 | Random
LIVE – Updated at 14:20 Retail sales across Great Britain picked up last month, and consumer confidence has risen despite inflation. On the wires…. Nationwide Building Society has said there could be a “cooling” of the UK’s red-hot housing market because of rising inflation and interest rates. Robert Gardner, […]
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by Adrian | Nov 18, 2021 | Random
In Dresden, the fate of the ‘Striezelmarkt’, Germany’s oldest Christmas market is being decided. The traders, whose stalls have almost all been set up, are nervously awaiting the authorities’ decision: will the market go ahead in spite of ever increasing Covid-19 infection numbers? The event, which attracts more than […]
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by Adrian | Nov 18, 2021 | Random
Photo courtesy U.S. Forest Service A beloved holiday tradition has once again returned to Michigan’s national forestland: The $5 U-cut Christmas tree. Each year, the U.S. Forest Service offers the opportunity for people to cut their own wild-grown Christmas tree from Michigan’s nearly 3 million acres of national forests. […]
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by Adrian | Nov 17, 2021 | Random
Union members protest at Parliament House to make Christmas Day a public holiday in 2021. (ABC News) South Australia’s Lower House of parliament has passed legislation to make Christmas Day a public holiday, but with a major amendment that could scuttle any chance of the bill passing into law. […]
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by Adrian | Nov 17, 2021 | Random
WASHINGTON — Less than two weeks into the effort to vaccinate children between the ages of 5 and 11, the White House is seeing encouraging uptake statistics for this youngest cohort, according to internal Biden administration figures shared with Yahoo News, with more than 2.5 million already partially vaccinated. […]
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