UK Mother Steals Daughter £20K Inheritance & Wedding Savings to Fund Vacation

Denvar Bathie & Trudy Collins

A UK mom has been given a 12 month suspended prison sentence for stealing her daughter’s £20,000 inheritance.

Denvar Bathie, 23, received a £20,000 inheritance, from her dad when he passed away. She intended to save up money for her wedding and a mortgage on a property, and wanted to make sure that she wouldn’t be tempted to spend it indiscriminately.

Bathie’s mother, 44-year-old Trudy Collins then convinced her to hand over her bank card, so she could keep it safe in the attic, so she wouldn’t be tempted to spend the money.

Trusting her mother, Bathie followed her advice.

Thirsty Comedian Chelsea Handler post nude pics on instagram during holiday ski trip

The comedian and former talk show host, who has been campaigning against Instagram's censorship policies, posted yet another topless photo of herself on boxing day while on top of a snowy mountain during a holiday ski trip. 

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Latenight TV Host David Letterman pulls curtain on holiday tradition

David Bauder | The Associated PressWith the curtain soon to fall on David Letterman’s late-night television career, the end comes Friday for an odd and emotional holiday tradition that involves comic Jay Thomas, the Lone Ranger, a giant meatball and, most indelibly, singer Darlene Love.

Love will sing “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)” for the 21st and final time on Letterman’s annual holiday show. He’s retiring from the “Late Show” next May.

“I’m looking forward to it this year more than any other year, with mixed feelings, of course,” said Letterman’s longtime bandleader, Paul Shaffer. “It’s been incredibly meaningful for me.”

Toronto beer professor shares holiday secrets

Mike Donachie MetroIt’s time to take another look at beer, Toronto’s professor of beer has said, and there’s never been a better time to do it.

Roger Mittag, who really is a professor of beer at Humber College, said the credibility of the drink deserves more attention, especially during the holidays when people are thinking about what to take to parties.

“The big thing for me is to help people to understand and appreciate it,” said Mittag, founder of beer education company Thirst for Knowledge.

“That means to slow down and look at the beer, and smell the beer, and taste the beer. Get it out of the can and get it into a glass so you can appreciate everything the brewer has put into it.

“Think about having it with food.”

There’s been a resurgence of respect for the humble beer, Mittag said, after 15 to 20 years of what he sees as a focus on wine.

Tell 'em! Ugly Christmas sweaters holiday new tradition

Stephen Peever holds up a ugly Christmas sweater on Granville Street in downtown Vancouver, B.C., Friday, Dec. 5, 2014. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward

Justin SmallbridgeThe Canadian Press
For years, sweaters bristling with bells, lights, appliqued Santa Clauses, snowmen and reindeer were mocked as the exclusive province of the tasteless at Christmas.

But the tide is turning and the ugly Christmas sweater has become the season’s newest tradition and continues to grow.

“Right after Halloween we bring in the ugly Christmas sweaters,” said Tracy Lynn the manager of Used House of Vintage, where street-level signs — one brandished by a man in a Mr. Peanut costume — tell Vancouver shoppers they can find “5,000 ugly Christmas sweaters upstairs.”

“It goes up every year. It’s definitely up this year,” Lynn said of the amount of merchandise her store was selling.

“We’re selling more, sooner, earlier in the season than we were last year.”

Both Lynn and Stephen Peever, who mans a sidewalk stall, Ugly Christmas Sweaters, say demand had increased markedly in the past three or four years. They attributed that growth to more people having office and house parties featuring ugly Christmas sweaters.

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Wait For It! Black Friday By The Numbers

People carry shopping bags along Broadway on December 2, 2013 in New York City. Getty Images

When they sit down to carve their turkeys on Thursday, families across the U.S. have at least one reason to be thankful: Black Friday. The annual feast of discounts and credit card-swiping — which, increasingly, begins on Thanksgiving itself, if not sooner — pumps billions of dollars into the U.S. economy and prompts Americans to get a head start on holiday shopping. Here are the key figures behind the binge:

1966: The year Philadelphia police are thought to have coined the term “Black Friday,” referring to the tide of theft and traffic infractions they had to cope with on the first big day of Christmas shopping.

6 p.m.: The time that U.S. Target, Walmart, and Sears stores will open for Black Friday this year, but on Thanksgiving Thursday.

5 p.m.: The time that Best Buy stores will open on Thursday.