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Your tailor-made Christmas

Whether cheap and cheerful or utterly over the top, we have everything you need for your perfect day

Have a green Christmas

You might just help to save the planet

Have a cost-effective Christmas

It can be cheap without being mean

Have a spiritual Christmas

Forget Santa and all those snowmen, show that you care

Have a tasteful Christmas

Shuddering at the neighbours' plastic snowman, flashing santa and luminous window-sill nativity scene? Take refuge here

50 of the world's best design blogs

Source a late Christmas gift or ideas for a New Year makeover from the coolest interiors blogs on the planet

Modern minefield: Christmas tips

What do you give the key helpers in your life — the lollipop lady, the cleaner, the binmen, the teacher, and the Ocado man?

What makes men and women happy?

Some say that men and women enjoy different things, but are they really so different deep down? Take our poll and tell us

No one likes us, we don’t swear . . .

The Football League wants families to be able to enjoy match days without fans’ foul-mouthed tirades reaching young ears

The stores replacing Woolworths

A year after the high street fixture failed, consumers are still nostalgic for Woolies. Now entrepreneurs are responding

Slamming the door on our long shared past

For divorcees, the painful price of achieving a clean slate after separation can be a powerful sense of lost identity

City of Adelaide set for the breaker's yard

The City of Adelaide, a clipper as iconic in Australia’s history as the Mayflower is in America’s, faces demolition

AA Gill on the rise of the big, green eco-army

Amid the oil barons, islanders and idealists in bad shoes, the eco-lobby has annexed not just the climate conference, but the world

25 reasons to hit the slopes this season

Our guide to the wildest parties, the hippest hangouts and the coolest ski gear - down to the hand-knitted beanie of choice

Meet the hustlers of Tiger Woods and co

Rachel Uchitel, the woman who triggered the Tiger Woods scandal, works in nightclub VIP. How do these party queens operate?

Going up

Shh... can you keep a secret?

Guerrilla gourmet nights, wacky film screenings, dinners on mountain tops... they’re a growing trend, and all are highly exclusive

An English country melting pot

Will the village of Firle's way of life be threatened when it falls within the compass of the South Downs National Park?

Happy toff hunting - we're all posh now

How do you actually identify the posh from the not-posh in 2009, when Coleen's got Hunters and Agas are like Minis?