120 Days

BLUE Square North club Blyth Spartans has decided to donate ten per cent of the gate takings from their New Year's Day home fixture with Workington to the charity Help For Heroes. Read More

THE third derby instalment of the season between Bedlington and Ashington was literally put on ice until later in the campaign when the clash – scheduled to be played on Boxing Day – was called off 48 hours beforehand due to the big freeze. Read More

A Sutherland cancer victim given five months to live last May has been celebrating a Christmas he thought he would never see – with his new wife. Read More

THE Boxing Day sales started with a bang this year, with shops in Worcester reporting a great improvement during the past month. Read More

Opinionated talk is big business on cable news networks when the sun goes down. Read More

While appealing to everyone to enjoy the festivities responsibly, without overdoing it, in a statement released yesterday Justice and Home Affairs Minister, Carm Mifsud Bonnici thanked all those who contributed to maintaining a sense of order over the past days. Read More

Slick roads created early setbacks for some post-holiday shoppers and retail workers Saturday during what is usually one of the biggest shopping days of the year, area store managers said. Read More

First up is a quote from Stephen Roach who said "Investment in fixed assets such as factories and the rail network accounted for more than 95 percent of China's 7.7 percent growth in the first three quarters of 2009 and made up 45 percent of gross domestic product, which is higher than any major economy in history." Read More

Kuwait has discovered a new oil and gas field and is exploring for more as the OPEC producer seeks to boost its crude output capacity by about 27% to 4 million barrels of oil a day by 2020, a senior oil official said in comments carried by state-run Kuwait News Agency late Tuesday. Read More