Last Christmas for Willaston's Hadlow Road Station? In what may turn out to be the last public event at Hadlow Road Station for a long time, possibly ever, its Friends group invited the residents of Willaston and beyond to join them for a Christmas celebration on Sunday December 13th.Attendees of all ages braved the rather chilly, wet afternoon, to enjoy entertainment from the Handbag of Harmonies Choir, led by musical director Matt Baker, and the City of Chester band, along Read more [...]

In this season of goodwill, let us commend the Federation of Small Business for showing so much of it. On Friday, the group’s chairman, John Allan, had nothing but praise for staff and volunteers at the Environment Agency who have helped many of his members cope with the flooding of the past week or so. That was big of the FSB, which could have spent the day complaining about the way small businesses have been so poorly served by the Government on this issue. Let’s begin with the £51m Read more [...]

Revellers dressed in Santa Claus and other holiday-themed outfits take part in the annual SantaCon event in the Brooklyn borough of New York. SantaCon came to New York in 1998, when a "young San Franciscan strapped on a fake white beard, donned a $12 red suit, and led 200 Santas as they went caroling up Fifth Avenue in Manhattan," to the delight of passersby. (Source: Reuters) Read more [...]

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Posted: Saturday, December 12, 2015 10:30 pm Out of town events for Dec. 13-19 Today Read more [...]

I’m tardy in posting this, but the events listed for today (Saturday) and for next week and beyond are still delightfully compelling if not downright tempting, as you’ll soon see for yourself. Note that some shops are taking the holidays off when it comes to wine tastings — just too busy and not enough parking. And a mighty shout-out to the Dayton-based wine listserv that compiles alllllll of this information and allows us to copy and paste it right here! Enjoy …. Jay’s Kitchen Door 225 Read more [...]

Image copyright RoadTrip Image caption Tory activist Mark Clarke is at the centre of a bullying scandal - he denies all the allegations The Young Britons' Foundation has been portrayed as a "Tory madrasa" used to teach young Conservatives Read more [...]

New Orleans Saints wide receiver Brandin Cooks practiced on Friday and is listed as probable on the team's injury report, according to ESPN's Mike Triplett. It is a stunning turn of events after it was reported that Cooks suffered a concussion during Thursday's practice. With the NFL's strict concussion protocol, players usually take multiple days if not weeks passing through and getting cleared to return to the field. However, if Cooks did in fact have a concussion on Thursday, it took him Read more [...]

Cytori Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: CYTX) today announced that it has received formal confirmation from The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) that Cytori’s request for an oral hearing with the Nasdaq Hearing Panel (“Panel”) has been granted. The hearing will occur on January 21, 2016 at Nasdaq’s Washington, D.C. offices. During the period prior to the hearing, Cytori’s common stock will continue to trade on The Nasdaq Global Market (“NGM”). Read more [...]

ESPOO, Finland, Dec. 11, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- In order to comply with U.S. regulations, Nokia is required to remind holders of Alcatel-Lucent securities that it has the option, on the date of the announcement of the final results of the exchange offer and in its sole discretion, subject to the terms and conditions of the public exchange offer, to waive the minimum tender condition of the exchange offer to 50% of the Alcatel-Lucent share capital and voting Read more [...]