Snowmail: sales spending splurge
Updated on 26 December 2008
As shoppers indulge in the sales, there's a new gloomy prediction for our recession-hit economy.
Millions have been out spending today, taking advantage of bumper Boxing Day sales. But as shoppers indulge in a final retail splurge, there's a new gloomy prediction for our recession-hit economy: growth may hit a 60-year low in 2009.
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Killer 'Santa' on the rampage
In Los Angeles, eight people are dead and a family's in mourning after a 45-year-old man dressed as Santa went on a shooting rampage at a party hosted by his ex-wife's parents.
Criminal deportations target met?
It was the issue that brought the career of a home secretary to an abrupt end. Charles Clarke had to fall on his sword when it was revealed some foreign prisoners had been released instead of being deported.
Now the government says its provisional figures show they're on target for removing foreign offenders. But are they cooking the books?
In the sport
In football, all the top teams were playing today. Chelsea's currently top of the Premier League after beating West Brom, but Liverpool are on track to oust them from the top spot.
