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As always a light sprinkling of the white stuff has led to hysteria across the country!

Met with either despair or elation when the snow comes to Britain you can guarantee no one will speak of anything else. People have taken to social media in their thousands to document the first snow of winter for the majority of the country, and being December has started to get people into the festive spirit!

(NewsPoint)

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Almost 20 per cent of Brits will injure themselves cooking Christmas dinner, a survey* by personal injury specialist First4lawyers has revealed.

The survey, which looked at the top Christmas related mishaps that take place in the home, discovered that preparing and serving the biggest family meal of the year is the main cause of festive foul-ups.

The top five causes of injuries at Christmas are:

1. Cooking Christmas dinner (20%)

2. Cuts from broken tree ornaments (11%)

3. Falls from ladders of roofs installing lights and decorations (11%)...

A high-profile Dorset conference this week (on Wed 5th December) will address the tensions between the public and private sectors.

Key note speakers will include influential figures from the worlds of business, education and government.

The event, at Bournemouth University this Wednesday, is being organized by the Institute of Directors (IoD) in Dorset and held in conjunction with the university, business engagement organisation Business Solent and Poole-based chartered surveyors Align.

Warren Munson, chairman of the IoD in Dorset, said: “We’re thrilled to host this...

The Association of British Insurers (ABI) has called for the Government to commit to a joint solution to ensure long-term affordable flood insurance for high-risk households.

The ABI has described the current state of talks aimed at reaching an agreement as being at an impasse. This follows the Government’s refusal to consider providing a temporary overdraft facility to a proposed not-for-profit special insurance fund for 200,000 high-risk households which will otherwise struggle to get affordable household insurance when the current arrangements come to an end next year....